I didn't care that much about PHP but learned just enough of it so I could read the Laravel source code, which is one of the best-written codebase out there that also reads like prose and is just a pure joy to read.
Even though I work with Rails at my day job, absolutely love Ruby, and don't see myself programming in PHP any time soon, I have learned so many valuable things about writing software well, by reading Laravel's source and how much care, detail, and attention Taylor Otwell (creator of Laravel) put into it.
This may sound too lofty, but at this point I've almost made it a habit to read at least some piece of Laravel code, be it a method or a class, or even documentation before going to bed. It just makes me happy.
I didn't care that much about PHP but learned just enough of it so I could read the Laravel source code, which is one of the best-written codebase out there that also reads like prose and is just a pure joy to read.
Even though I work with Rails at my day job, absolutely love Ruby, and don't see myself programming in PHP any time soon, I have learned so many valuable things about writing software well, by reading Laravel's source and how much care, detail, and attention Taylor Otwell (creator of Laravel) put into it.
This may sound too lofty, but at this point I've almost made it a habit to read at least some piece of Laravel code, be it a method or a class, or even documentation before going to bed. It just makes me happy.
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