For any nontrivial service that wants to build a large audience, something with the glacial performance of Laravel (and I use Laravel, so I'm not completely knocking it) has the downside that things you would normally do when much more mature crop up earlier. Like having to worry about horizontal scaling, or rewriting parts of your app in another language.
I'm not quite sure where L5's performance gets sunk so badly, but it really is a lot slower than earlier variants of the framework. About the only thing slower is Rails, really!
... and unlike Rails, Laravel hasn't had the stability and ecosystem to make those things really easy. Hopefully this LTS plan will change that a wee bit, but we'll see.
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For any nontrivial service that wants to build a large audience, something with the glacial performance of Laravel (and I use Laravel, so I'm not completely knocking it) has the downside that things you would normally do when much more mature crop up earlier. Like having to worry about horizontal scaling, or rewriting parts of your app in another language.
I'm not quite sure where L5's performance gets sunk so badly, but it really is a lot slower than earlier variants of the framework. About the only thing slower is Rails, really!
... and unlike Rails, Laravel hasn't had the stability and ecosystem to make those things really easy. Hopefully this LTS plan will change that a wee bit, but we'll see.