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Re:Union Types have been accepted for PHP 8 by CodeWriter23 on Saturday November 09, 2019 @05:16PM (#21494801)
How long ago was your experience? I started using Laravel early last year, took a hiatus and have been actively developing in it for the past 7 months. This is coming from years with Perl Dancer / Dancer2. I have not run into these issues. But I have to admit my own bias in preferring the “show me how” instructional method over “tell me everything, no matter how esoteric”. I’ve also found Laravel superior to Dancer in every way. But I did have to get into a different mindset.
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Re:Union Types have been accepted for PHP 8 by lone_haxx0r on Saturday November 09, 2019 @10:14PM (#21496169)
> But I have to admit my own bias in preferring the “show me how” instructional method over “tell me everything, no matter how esoteric”.

I don't think it's about preferring one approach or the other.

A good library/framework should have both instructional documentation and reference documentation. They have different use-cases and are not interchangeable.

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Re:Union Types have been accepted for PHP 8 by cutler on Sunday November 10, 2019 @01:05AM (#21496668)
Comparing Dancer with Laravel is a bit apples to organges, no? Mojolicious or Catalyst would make a better comparison with Laravel.
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