Absolutely, writing modern PHP with Laravel as a framework makes the whole language feel totally different compared to just even a few years ago. I do also really like the statelessness of how PHP is ran. At the day job we are using it to serve tens of millions of API's a day, without having any issues concerning stability and/or scalability.

> Laravel alone has resuscitated PHP's reputation

I honestly don't know if this is supposed to be a good or bad thing.