[kgdiem]

I like it. I returned to PHP after nearly a decade and with Laravel I’m able to ship products really quickly.

Laravel’s collections fix my syntactic issues with PHP arrays.

My only complaint is that type checking is performed at runtime, so if you forget to mark a field as optional you get a type error even if you account for the nullref in your code.

[kgdiem]

Oh! And last time I checked, maybe 2015, a lot of the stdlib of uncompiled Zend PHP is just plain old C code.