Typo3 features
Typoscript is NOT a scripting language. A configuration language. Learn a config language before using the CMS? thinks it's worth it.
Template view- looks like RegEdit! Creating a hierarchical menu - using scripting. Also things like creating users.
List module, like basic Drupal views, but has multiple editing built in.
Templating module, assigning templates to the subpages of given pages. Flat HTML. Define structure in interface. Map fields to... tokens in the templates? This is like blocks in Drupal.
"Content in Joomla and Drupal is always a bunch of objects. In Typo3 it's more like bundles of text, like Perl" - Hagen Graf
Wil be releases every six months, like Ubuntu r cycle. Next release is on stability, usability, simplicity. 4.x branch, trying to converge on new 5.x branch.
Typo3 Phoenix is a major, OO, MVC, DBO-abstracted rewrite with a new templating system. Live demo.
If someone could program Typoscript reliably, I'd trust them with Drupal module and theme development. So this still feels like a hobbyist CMS, where the dev is the main CMS user, even though it can probably power non-hobbyist websites fine.
