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The authoring experience improvements we made in Drupal 8 appear to be well-received, but that doesn't mean we are done. With semantic versioning in Drupal 8, we can now make more UX changes in follow-up releases of Drupal 8. So now is a good time to start moving Drupal's user experience forward.

With RESTful web services in Drupal 8 core, Drupal can function as an API-first back end serving browser applications, native applications on mobile devices, and much more.

Earlier this week I returned from DrupalCon Asia, which took place at IIT Bombay, one of India's premier engineering universities.

There has been a lot of discussion around the future of the Drupal front end both on Drupal.org and on Dries's blog posts. These all relate to Dries's concept of "progressive decoupling", in which some portions of the page are handed over to client-side logic after Drupal renders the initial page (not to be confused with "full decoupling"). The posts have drawn a variety of reactions.

It’s a great time to be part of the Drupal Association. We’ve done some amazing work in the last few years, and we’re in a great position to work with the community to continue to improve and grow fully into our mission.