Yes, if were not for Laravel's Collections I wouldn't touch it. The biggest barrier for me with PHP is the idiomatic PSR-driven abuse of blank lines, a la Kerni

Yes, if were not for Laravel's Collections I wouldn't touch it. The biggest barrier for me with PHP is the idiomatic PSR-driven abuse of blank lines, a la Kernigen and Ritchie, coupled with code hidden in doc-comments. You're lucky to find more than 5 lines of code visible on a screen when surrounded by this code style monstrosity.