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Things considered harmful
Someone on the internet shared their concerns about Laravel. We can talk all day about the arguments this person is making against Laravel — I agree with a handful of them, and disagree with another handful.
"It creates unmaintainable projects and doesn't teach best practices" — people say.
Some people will point towards failed Laravel projects, trying to prove their point.
Footnotes https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#most-popular-technologies-webframe-prof' with Laravel clearly being the most popular PHP framework https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2022/php/#which-php-frameworks-and-platforms-do-you-regularly-use-if-any-' with Laravel being the clear lead https://packagist.org/packages/laravel/framework/stats' it has 250 million downloads to date https://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/symfony https://usefathom.com/blog/does-laravel-scale https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19917655
"It creates unmaintainable projects and doesn't teach best practices" — people say.
Some people will point towards failed Laravel projects, trying to prove their point.
Footnotes https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#most-popular-technologies-webframe-prof' with Laravel clearly being the most popular PHP framework https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2022/php/#which-php-frameworks-and-platforms-do-you-regularly-use-if-any-' with Laravel being the clear lead https://packagist.org/packages/laravel/framework/stats' it has 250 million downloads to date https://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/symfony https://usefathom.com/blog/does-laravel-scale https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19917655
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