Same here: I started with PHP (and Zencart and the like) and moved on to Python and Django. When I had to step back to PHP for a while, Laravel was an island o

Same here: I started with PHP (and Zencart and the like) and moved on to Python and Django. When I had to step back to PHP for a while, Laravel was an island of sanity, just because it was clearly "let's do Django/Rails in PHP".