Maintaining a legacy project might as well be a different language entirely than building a fresh project with modern PHP. I've been doing both, maintaining and

Maintaining a legacy project might as well be a different language entirely than building a fresh project with modern PHP. I've been doing both, maintaining and modernizing a 17 year old PHP codebase, while building fresh apps with Laravel. And I would say the language is certainly not the limiting factor, but rather prior decisions causing debt.