DEV Community

[Comment from a deleted post]
Collapse
 
uptoeleven profile image
Simon Brown • Edited

It's great because it

Now if you were "Laravel" you'd magically fill in the gaps in that sentence and know precisely what I was saying and why...

In fact I can probably do it without vowels and Laravel would think it had the same meaning

t's grt bcs t

Obviously everyone knows what THAT means. I mean there's a couple of magic methods in there but so what?

Laravel is good but it is very much a prototyping tool and you hit its limits pretty quickly.

 
skeeith profile image
Gether Medel

I think you haven't used Laravel for big systems yet. I haven't reach a limit in Laravel with giant apps. it can clearly handle giant tasks that wordpress can NEVER do.

Laravel is never like wordpress. it just never is. I've been developing real-time event-driven applications and wordpress can't even do half of what Laravel can do. probably not even 1/4 of what Laravel is capable of doing. You clearly haven't develop a complex real-time event-driven application that requires a lot of functionalities that Laravel offers that wordpress just can't do.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to develop big systems like that in Wordpress and you're comparing them in simple terms.

If I were to compare them.
Ant is Wordpress and Laravel is an Elephant.

 
uptoeleven profile image
Simon Brown

Why are you building giant apps at all? Wouldn't you be better off delegating some of the responsibility to micro-services?

Laravel is never like Wordpress because it does different things. Yes. You're right. Cars are nothing like aeroplanes because, like, aeroplanes fly and cars don't. So how can they both be called vehicles?

I'm saying cars are like aeroplanes cos they're both vehicles. And Laravel is like Wordpress because with both, you can make them do stuff they weren't really designed to do.

Look - obviously I've not used Laravel for big systems yet so I've got a lot to learn (I've used Symfony for them though...).

But here's an article from someone who has a similar perspective to mine: freecodecamp.org/news/moving-away-...

There are bits of Laravel that are not nice to use and which violate the principles of SOLID. And that's as good a reason as any to question the way it's built.