I'm using Laravel/PHP for a new project and it's been a joy. A true joy. After spending the last 6+ years writing backend services in Node, PHP feels like a breath of fresh air. No restarting the server, no compiling errors from babel/typescript wackiness, no blocking threads, server-side templates out-of-the-box, and so much more.
PHP has come a really long way, I really hope to see it's resurgence some day after everyone has been burned enough from running JavaScript as their server.
PHP has come a really long way, I really hope to see it's resurgence some day after everyone has been burned enough from running JavaScript as their server.