[soulclap]

That makes me wonder: why do you spend so many hours badmouthing PHP in multiple threads on here? Why isn't that time spent on something else?

[ragnese]

Being on Hacker News is leisure time. If you work on making PHP suck less purely for leisure, I reserve no judgement. If you are a Laravel author, my question stands.

[wsatb]

The answer is the same reason you build anything: there was a need for it, especially in the early 2010's for the language.