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by ManuelKiessling 1673 days ago
I am honestly and truly trying my absolute best, but no matter how hard I try, I again and again completely fail to sufficiently and comprehensively put into meaningful words how the inconsistency of the PHP language doesn’t play a role AT ALL when building actual web applications for actual users.

It just. Doesn’t. Matter. Choose Symfony or Laravel, and you are in for a wonderful development experience, from setup to dependency management to architecture to implementation to testing to deployment – for certain kinds of projects it’s just perfect.
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elpatoisthebest 1673 days ago
I agree with you, and it's super hard to explain. But if you have the right type of project requirements, Laravel is unbelievably great to work with. I love other languages more than PHP, but for a real world, client facing project that I want to be mostly hands off, Laravel would get my vote 9/10 times.
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osrec 1673 days ago
I think you've sufficiently and comprehensively put it into meaningful words above!

The truth is, those who care to use the language properly know this already. Those who wish to dismiss it always will, and this happens to be an easy angle of attack.

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