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Not a knock on WordPress at all, since it is ubiquitous. But for PHP I would say the "killer app" is actually Laravel.

I get why you think that, but I'd say that Wordpress was a different time.

Back when your Squarespace/Webflow/Wix didn't exist yet, this was a "great" no-code solution

I still think WordPress is great (far better than those other options in the space), I just think Laravel was what PHP needed to legitimize it to developers. You can build anything with Laravel as a framework, it's great.

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