Laravel

“one of the most comprehensive and best developer experiences around”

“a huge bloated framework uses more tokens as the LLM might read the source”

“Laravel ITS A HUGE CODEBASE and a high risk for any real software project.”

“very solid framework solutions like Laravel where everything works out of the box”

“it's PHP the language that allows you to interact with a much more convenient abstraction layer provided by Laravel.”

“I don't have to make decisions about the parts of the application that aren't unique to what I'm building”

“it muddies the boundaries between paid and free, it sends a signal to developers to look elsewhere”

“The default Laravel project that's generated when choosing React looks really bad to me.”

“Whereas stuff like Laravel or Rails or Redis or Unreal Engine can sell me on PHP, Ruby, C/Lua, C++”

“Currently I just use Laravel monoliths for everything and I am pretty sure this is good enough for most web services out there.”

“You only need a VPS and a managed database for testing out the market and can scale a lot without increasing expenses that much”

“Laravel is great for when you know you're gonna onboard/offboard a bunch of developers over months/years”

“PHP + Laravel give the same easy and rapid development as Ruby + Rails”

“he's clearly moved from "build a framework" to "build a platform" that drives money to his pockets.”

“I want an opinionated default from my framework that is thoroughly documented and part of the AI training corpus.”

“get their projects online as smoothly as possible, so that hopefully they become a long-lasting member of our awesome community.”

“Laravel is shit because the optional, not required by default Boost package includes an ad”

“I've built multiple profitable products with Laravel without caring the slighest about the internals”

“how many novice developers learn bad practices from its awful architecture”

“Injecting ads into agents and PR's is not the way to do it.”

“VCs typically want a return on their 57 million dollar investment.”

“I don't think it's unfair to be wary of the shift to VC funding”

“He didn't have to give it away for free and turn to adware.”

“you're complaining it's spam that he's inconvenienced you into adding a sentence to your agents file”

“Laravel, Django, Rails, and Spring each have thousands or hundreds-of-thousands of times more websites in production”

“RoR and Laravel ecosystems employ the RoR or Laravel way of doing things and everything works together very smoothly”

“PHP is faster to develop in then Pythin or JS then addin a framework like Laravel and you are already done.”

“I regularly encounter and suffer from unmodified instances of Laravel's default session cookie timeout of 120 minutes”

“lots of magic, pretty much always one recommended way to do things, excellent code generation using CLI”

“Same goes for Laravel which also includes laravel Boost for even more assistance for idiomatic code generation”

“A good example is Laravel. They built services like Forge, Cloud, Nightwatch around open source.”

“Go with Laravel and some admin packages and you generate CRUD pages in minutes.”

“a batteries included framework (like Laravel or Django) makes HTMX even more appealing”

“Look at Laravel or rails if you want a really complete full stack solution.”

“its lack of magic makes for much higher productivity in the long run”

“Laravel is probably the most well documented frameworks even comparing frameworks from other languages.”

“it feels like its trying its hardest to lipstick the PHP warts”

“Laravel is ahead -> on documentation & bringing various ways to do things into the framework.”

“The development experience is almost always really smooth and there are more and more tools to further smoothen that experience every day.”

“It worked great and we hadn't encountered business problems that couldn't be fairly easily solved within the ecosystem.”