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by midrus 1634 days ago
I've always said that frameworks, tools, ecosystem, libraries, community, etc are far, far, far more important than the programming language.

Also, nowadays PHP is not 10 year's ago PHP, same as nowadays's JavaScript is not 10 year's ago JavaScript. They're both "ok" languages to me.

And yes, having used for many years Django, some playing with Rails on the side, and then everything under the sun for Node, I 100% agree Laravel is freaking awesome and I really wish I had discovered it earlier.