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The main reason is that it's the least-competitive language to hire for in the Bay Area. There are other reasons too, though. Laravel is easily competitive wit
by chjohasbrouck 10y ago
The main reason is that it's the least-competitive language to hire for in the Bay Area. There are other reasons too, though.
Laravel is easily competitive with Rails and Django. PHP7 is usually faster than Python and Ruby in most cases (it's roughly surpassed Facebook's HHVM). Composer and the PHP ecosystem give you very wide and convenient access to high-quality vendor libraries for just about anything you need (similar to gems/npm).
It's not as if it's broken. You can write a fantastic web application or web service using PHP. You can make a mess out of it for sure, but I've seen plenty of Rails projects turn into a big mess too.