I've had a reasonably good time with Laravel (versions 5.x), although not having a lot of experience with other stacks (say, django), ymmv. That said, I don't

I've had a reasonably good time with Laravel (versions 5.x), although not having a lot of experience with other stacks (say, django), ymmv. That said, I don't think it's so profoundly amazing as to be worth learning PHP if 1) you're not already somewhat exposed to it or 2) the place where you work doesn't already use a lot of PHP.