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Discussion on: What software development tools (libraries/frameworks/apps/whatever) make you feel relaxed while you're working with them?

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Wouter van Marrum

I love working with Laravel. I made a career switch around 3 or 4 years ago from factory work to development.

First job I got was mostly plain php. I remember that we build systems from scratch and needed to make everything over and over again.

In my spare time I looked at frameworks and I started with codeigniter but ellislab dropped support and it wasn't clear what future it would have.

When I started with Laravel the 4.2 version was just released and I liked using it since the learning curve wasn't too high. I remain using laravel to this day and have seen most of the ups and downs.

It really gives me joy that I can help my team on a framework level. Meaning I have seen almost all changes that happend and are happinging in the framework which I can explain to my team.

Sometimes I can make educated guesses based on the past which sometimes help me and my team to be ready for new releases.