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Laravel is a pretty bad codebase, making use of reflection or just assuming methods are present instead of interfaces, actively laughing in the face of static typing.

They're also awful at managing issues/bugs, where they'll gladly close issues without explanation, or close an issue when a pull request gets submitted, only to reject the pull request and not re-open the issue.

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Fair enough, you seem to have contributed quite a bit to the framework after all [1]. However, don't you think they have gotten better with triaging as of late?

Also, I'm wondering, does your criticism still apply to the latest versions of Laravel or does it stem from frustrations with the pre-5.0 versions? Regarding your comments about the lack of interfaces, it's worth mentioning that at least the core components do have an interface now [2].

[1] https://github.com/laravel/framework/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=...

[2] https://laravel.com/docs/master/contracts#contract-reference

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