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

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105 points robbyrussell | 1 comments | 26 Aug 25 12:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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noir_lord ◴[30 Aug 25 16:51 UTC] No.45076069[source]▶
In Laravel's Defence (words I never though I'd say) the L3 -> L4 transistion was a nightmare because he went to PSR4/rewrote a bunch of stuff, I got bit by it as well.

All subsequent upgrades have been easier (if not always easy) by comparison - it was kind of a one time thing.

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1. Implicated ◴[30 Aug 25 19:57 UTC] No.45077536[source]▶
4.2 -> 5 is a problem. Pretty sure official docs recommend creating a new application and porting it rather than trying to perform a 4.2 -> 5 upgrade.