WordPress vs EmDash: Is This Astro-Based CMS...

I've been watching the CMS space for years, and every few months someone declares WordPress dead. It never is. But when I saw EmDash trending on GitHub — a full-stack TypeScript CMS built on Astro that explicitly calls itself the "spiritual successor to WordPress" — I figured it was worth a serious look. Here's the thing: WordPress powers roughly 40% of the web. You don't dethrone that by being slightly better. You dethrone it by being fundamentally different in ways that matter. So let's dig in