[krick]

Am I mistaken, or was it that lichess was actually in PHP a couple of years ago? I seem to remember that I was surprised to learn that it is Laravel+Vue. But maybe I'm mixing things up.

[virtualwhys]

You're probably confusing Lichess for another app, the founder has been in the Scala community since at least 2012, if not before.

Although maybe in the early days it was, for some reason, written in PHP; I'd be quite surprised if that were the case.