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You're spot on. PHP is really bad, but zillions of hours have gone into tools around and on top of the language such that it's actually not that bad to develop in anymore.

Why was all this time spent on PHP instead of doing anything else? I don't have a clue.

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That makes me wonder: why do you spend so many hours badmouthing PHP in multiple threads on here? Why isn't that time spent on something else?

Being on Hacker News is leisure time. If you work on making PHP suck less purely for leisure, I reserve no judgement. If you are a Laravel author, my question stands.

The answer is the same reason you build anything: there was a need for it, especially in the early 2010's for the language.

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