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		the_duke on May 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PHP in 2019 What isn't fake is that Laravel uses magic methods everywhere, especially in the ORM layer. There are way too many magic things happening under the hood for my taste.

munk-a on May 15, 2019 | [–]

Magic methods in PHP are very commonly used to help reduce code verbosity - having come from working mostly in C++ I appreciate being able to express things succinctly.

malinens on May 16, 2019 | | [–]

Much more important for code, especially library code is readability

mjlangiii on May 16, 2019 | [–]

Laravel is moving away from magic methods to using facades, FWIW.

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