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by uxcolumbo 1046 days ago
I understand PHP has some perceived baggage and is not seen as a modern language, but why wouldn't you use something like Filament to build a SaaS app?
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Because it’s not seen as cool and has little use for padding out your resume or expanding the IT budget.

Also, if we’re talking about legacy baggage, let me tell you a story about JavaScript and “this”…

which one?
PHP is making a resurgence in my corners of the world - driven by Laravel. When deciding to spin up a new web project, the default used to be "Rails", then it moved to Node or Go + React, now its shifting towards Laravel...