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Re:PHP 8.4 by mg on Thursday November 21, 2024 @06:02AM (#42203061)
To get to know Laravel, I forced myself to build a project with it for a few weeks and I did not like it.

I found myself getting sucked in into a complex project structure and dealing with all kinds of strangeness like "artisan commands", "the autoload cache" etc.

With Django, I can build a web application in a single file that has "import django" on top and take it from there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40788329

Re:PHP 8.4 by jonwinstanley on Thursday November 21, 2024 @12:14PM (#42206401)
Laravel is excellent for building a website, for smaller projects there are simpler tools and frameworks