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Taylor Otwell: What 14 Years of Laravel Taught Me About Maintainability

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105 points robbyrussell | 2 comments | 26 Aug 25 12:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.515s | source
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kiririn ◴[30 Aug 25 12:19 UTC] No.45073990[source]▶
Still maintaining a Laravel 3 project. Barely made it 2 years before maintainability became a nightmare and the only upgrade path was complete rewrite. Projects written without an opinionated framework easily sail past 10 years of comfy maintainability
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1. conradfr ◴[30 Aug 25 12:52 UTC] No.45074210[source]▶
Apparently version 3 was released in 2012 though.

Is it even running on a still supported PHP version?

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2. kiririn ◴[30 Aug 25 13:25 UTC] No.45074468[source]▶
It's on PHP 7.4, so between RHEL and CloudLinux there's another few years left in it, before I weigh up rewrite vs another round of hacking modern PHP support into Laravel 3