Laravel Creator talks PHP, Lambos, and VC

Today we talk with Taylor Otwell, the creator of Laravel. We start at Laravel's humble beginnings and move all the way to the exciting new Series A raise with Accel and all that it is enabling Laravel to do today!

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[dcx]

As a Java dev, Laravel was a joy to work in. I hopped right in and did some demos for the board at work converting our legacy PHP app to a Laravel blade based app.

[xen]

I should re-iterate. TJ is a great interviewer/host. Not just a fanboy. Loved it. Great content. Covered things like how good Eloquent is, the config of laravel via drivers. Laravel is a lesson in how to use the GoF Design Patterns properly.

[phips-dev]

Would be interesting to also have a talk with Fabien Potencier - the creator of Symfony about PHP.

[travisricker]

Laravel+Inertia+Vue gives you basically everything. GOAT Stack

[maciejtrybilo]

For me one of the biggest advantages of server side rendering is that I _don't_ have to write complex code in JS or JS cosplaying as a type safe language.

[Thomasfrank]

Taylor's point around 00:18:43 is so good I want to put it on my wall

[couchtourist]

Picked up laravel this week for a personal project after hearing a lot about it. I’m use flutter/dart at my job and laravel has been a blast to use. Really love what they did.

[reinoob]

I learned Laravel this year and all my bigotry towards it became love. Laravel
's ecosystem is awesome. Inertia is such a great technology

[lukewood]

Nice interview, really good time. And this TJ dude is actually amazing.

[CristianKirk]

I've been using PHP+HTMX... super cool!

[ryandury]

Man, I've been working in the JS ecosystem for the last several years, but my previous job was built with Laravel. I'm now missing it. Great convo.

[MaxUgly]

25:10 Yamamoto Tsunetomo — 'Matters of great concern should be treated lightly.” Master Ittei commented, “Matters of small concern should be treated seriously"

[maxpaynestory]

A quick question for Taylor. PHP is also evolving really fast, how do you decide to use a new feature of PHP in Laravel?

[ivanjelenic]

Finally! The Lambo man himself, Taylor Otwell! Love Laravel, code in it daily.

[TankorSmash]

29:53 that's exactly what all that functional monad stuff is about, where you can break down many different types of things into similar operations, even without really knowing much about the things at first. It's fun that it can be represented just in naming patterns too.

[LuminousVoyage-og]

I wanna be like Taylor when I grow up.

[namelessbeast]

Man, Taylor seems like a really down to Earth guy. What a great interview!

[rebokfleetfoot]

i liked PHP. back in it's day, it was a good tool for whipping up a quick website with database access and dynamic HTML content

[Rcls]

Listening to this I start to get a feeling that I really want to build something, but every time I've tried I've been hit with the reality of "Oh shit, I will have to maintain this" and that just kills it for me.

[cb]

I’m betting Lex interviews Taylor soon