This is how they're converting people to join wordpress cult

I work in this branch and I hella hate WordPress, but once WP is used just as a bootstrap grid to launch your almost standalone extension, you use PSR and cammelCase instead of WP code style, it gives you less cancer and coding is quite enjoyable

The only good thing about Wordpress is the fact they have an API now. At least I can use data entered in their admin area without using Wordpress.

Wordpress has such a low barrier to entry that the majority of Wordpress stuff out there is god awful.

Their code base really needs modernising imo.

Disclaimer: whilst I don't develop in Wordpress by choice I do inherit a lot of sites written using Wordpress.

You can use Stripe with any language I think, don't quote me. But I know I used it with Ruby.