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PHP is the new JavaScript?
What would it take to switch back to PHP after years of full-stack JavaScript? A boy and his AI-enabled IDE set off to find out.
I yearned for a personal website with more functionality and pizazz than your run-of-the-mill index.html but, back in 2007, the only collateral you’d find in my college pockets were suspiciously-dirt-cheap Lionshead bottle caps with rebus puzzles printed on the underside. I’m fast-forwarding a bit for brevity, but it wasn’t too much later that a chap named Ryan Dahl introduced a way to execute JavaScript code outside a web browser. But still, even as an uninformed outsider, I am vaguely aware that one of Laravel’s top selling points is the first-class support for what feels like everything that you’d ever possibly want to implement in a web application.
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