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Laravel
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Laravel is the company blog at blog.laravel.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2014, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Accel Invests $57M into Laravel Products and Open-Source Framework”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One HN commenter links Laravel's post on Accel's $57M investment to argue that a venture-backed framework may prioritise making money over developer experience, and says they prefer Symfony.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Laravel is a framework for building modern web apps and AI agents. Expressive syntax, built-in tools, and everything you need to ship fast.
Most-linked posts?
- Accel Invests $57M into Laravel Products and Open-Source Framework2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-06
- Laravel 11 Now Available2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-12
What Hacker News says?
It’s difficult for me to trust a framework backed by venture capital ( https://blog.laravel.com/accel-invests-57m-into-laravel ). There are too many incentives to prioritize making money, which makes it easy to overlook developer experience. I rather use Symfony instead.
Comment linking /accel-invests-57m-into-laravel
on “PHP 8.4”Submitted Laravel 11 Now Available as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Laravel Nightwatch as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Laravel Boost as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accel Invests $57M into Laravel Products and Open-Source Framework as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Laravel v10 Released as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Managing Disk Space with “Ncdu” as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Laravel 4 CSRF Vulnerability as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Servers for Artisans: The Next Generation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Multi-Tenant Architecture Platform to Scale the Emmys as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inertia 2.0 Released as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taylor's Morning Routine and Laravel's Open Source Pledge as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Laravel 11 Now Available as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Octane and FrankenPHP as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vapor: Arm Architecture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Laravel Cookie Security Releases as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Laravel Forge: User Isolation as a story · 1 points
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