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Interesting, I'd not heard of this.

I consider myself to be a real-world site builder, in that I'm a trained graphic designer who picked up html, javascript and PHP in the late 90s, then learned a (very) little C/C++/Java along the way. I can handle a little OO, but I certainly don't live and breathe it.

I found Drupal 6 (my entry point) to be an immense pain in many ways. Some stuff was just really really hard to do, and fragile to maintain. Drupal 7 - once I got past the resistance to change - was certainly a considerable improvement.

Recently I decided to bite the bullet and develop a real small business site on Drupal 8. Gulp.

So far, apart from the bits that are still changing or just plain broken, I've been pleasantly surprised - once things mature, I think it's going to be FASTER for me to get a small, responsive D8 site up and running than a similar D7 site:

CMI is shaping up to be far far better than the Features/Strongarm kludges needed to manage configuration and (especially) deployment in D7. yml configuration files are very human-readable and hackable.

The twig theme engine is clean, does a far better job of separating presentation from logic, and prevents the sort of ridiculous insecure template php kludges that new users or Wordpress escapees seem to love.

Out of the box, Bartik is responsive and subthemes pretty well. Picture module in core is a huge win, as is the html5 shiv and modernizr support. I have not found it difficult to swap out jQuery to retain some IE8 support.

CKeditor in core with real Drupal forms in plugins is just great.

I'm writing a little custom module code to temporarily work around the lack of a few key contrib modules for now (Pathauto, Redirect), and have not found doing so to be an overly epic journey.

Sure, it's new. Sure, a lot of sites will stay in D7 for a long long time, especially if the long term support proposal works out. But once contrib starts catching up, I really won't hesitate to build SMB sites in Drupal 8.

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