Drupal 8 wins: unified entites n' plugins! (Part 2 of D8 won't kill your kittens)
Channel: Jeffrey A. McGuire
Date: 14/10/2013

Part 2 of the "Drupal 8 won't kill your kittens" live Hangout on Air with Lee Rowlands, Tim Plunkett, and Daniel Wehner. Here, we discuss the incredible improvements that have gone into Drupal 8's entity and plugin systems and how you will benefit from these as a developer.

See the accompanying post and listen to the audio-only version (also available on iTunes) at http://acquia.com/resources/podcasts/acquia-podcast-104-drupal-8-kittens-2-of-4

On October 4/5, 2013 (depending on your time zone), I hosted a live Hangout on Air with three major Drupal core contributors: Lee Rowlands (larowlan on Drupal.org), Tim Plunket (tim.plunkett on Drupal.org / @timplunkett on Twitter), and Daniel Wehner (dawehner on Drupal.org / @da_wehner on Twitter). We talked about what's going on in Drupal 8 and how you will benefit from the all the new stuff. This video is the second of four that cover the details of that conversation.

Backstory: Lee Rowlands felt that some of the noise going on around the Drupal 8 developer experience didn't touch on all the wins that we're getting from the changes in Drupal 8.

"I work all day on Drupal 7 sites. Drupal 8 is where I get to do the fun stuff. There are a lot of things in Drupal 8 that I couldn't wait for, dealing with shortcomings in Drupal 7 on a daily basis. 'I want it now' kind of stuff. That was my motivation for that talk."

"We do a lot of introspection and critical analysis in open source and Drupal, that's what makes it great. But sometimes I think we don't stop and celebrate the wins."