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Laravel Inventor Tells Devs To Quit Writing 'Cathedrals of Complexity'

2025-09-02 - msmash (from developers.slashdot.org)

Taylor Otwell, inventor and maintainer of popular PHP framework Laravel, is warning against overly complex code and the risks of bypassing the framework.

Developers are sometimes drawn to building \"cathedrals of complexity that aren't so easy to change,\" he said, speaking in a podcast for maintainable.fm, a series produced by Ruby on Rails consultancy… [+614 chars]

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Title: Laravel Inventor Tells Devs To Quit Writing 'Cathedrals of Complexity'
Summary: Taylor Otwell, inventor and maintainer of popular PHP framework Laravel, is warning against overly complex code and the risks of bypassing the framework.

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Developers are sometimes drawn to building \"cathedrals of complexity that aren't so easy to change,\" he said, speaking in a podcast for maintainable.fm, a series produced by Ruby on Rails consultancy… [+614 chars]
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Author: msmash
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