[lenlorijn]

PHP uses composer as a package manager, which is quite simple to use and very easy to install (it's a phar archive, basically an executable zip file). And frameworks like Laravel can be installed with a single composer command. This is still very little setup to come to the same point.

[oaiey]

The problem an educator has is the time from start till first success (from early happiness but also time constraint perspective). In the first lecture.

Important programming tools like Projects, Package Manager, Routing, separate view/model, ... are a delay in that timespan. They are all worth it and in most frameworks not too complicated. But each item needs time to explain.