alt Hacker NewsNo, Symfony is singlehandedly keeping PHP relevant, to the point that every other framework depends on its packages, Laravel included.
Most people like you who don't care about code quality and want to "just build" another B2B SaaS unmaintainable pile of spaghetti are now purely relying on AI and not writing any code themselves anymore, so why use PHP at all instead of JS like all the other vibe coders?
> so why use PHP at all instead of JS like all the other vibe coders?
Because there is nothing remotely close to Laravel for JS. I don't want to think about auth, job queues, mailing, cache layers, auditing etc. I want an opinionated default from my framework that is thoroughly documented and part of the AI training corpus. Laravel gives that to me.