5 engineers on Hacker News describe using Joomla first-hand: 0 endorse it, 4 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“It was a choice I would later come to regret but it got me a job.”
regret · production · fringedgentian · 2015-08-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Joomla is a black box with no particular logic where I have to reach for horrific third party bullcrap”
regret · production · homosaur · 2013-03-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I did some Joomla work for a client and it was the worst experience I've ever had working with anyone... Never again.”
regret · production · briandear · 2012-06-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It was better than the Joomla site that we replaced it with, in terms of reliability, performance under load, and maintainability.”
regret · production · SwellJoe · 2010-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the flaky Joomla extension sending the mail would bail out halfway through”
neutral · production · oneeyedpigeon · 2013-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?