Cloudflare previews 'EmDash' – an AI-driven rebuild of WordPress in TypeScript

The world's most popular CMS has been remade with the help of AI. Cloudflare has released EmDash version 0.1, described as a rebuild of the WordPress CMS (content management system) but using TypeScript rather than PHP. 

In contrast to the one week claimed for recreating Next.js using agentic AI, Cloudflare's product manager Matt Taylor and software engineer Matt Kane said that it took all of two months to create EmDash. Further, the code for EmDash is based on Astro, an open source JavaScript framework acquired by Cloudflare in January this year, so is not altogether newly generated by AI. Technically EmDash is an Astro integration.

"I'm the main engineer on this. I've also been on the Astro core team for two years, so I do think I understand real open source software and community. As the post implies, I did use a lot of ...