Having bounced around from Zend Framework, ZF2, Yii, Code Igniter, and Symfony until landing on Laravel pretty early on- I can say it's the only reason I still

Having bounced around from Zend Framework, ZF2, Yii, Code Igniter, and Symfony until landing on Laravel pretty early on- I can say it's the only reason I still do some projects in PHP at all. Frankly, writing web apps in Laravel is damn near a joy compared to the rest. We still do most of our big stuff with Java or Python and async/scripty stuff in Node, but a fair number of web apps that would've been Spring Framework by default a few years back have been very quickly whipped up in Laravel. We've launched pretty heavy traffic sites in the last few years that have utilized Elastic Beanstalk, SQS, Elastic Search, and a whole host of other goodies that integrate very easily with Laravel.