That’s funny, because Rails is the one big framework that does not have a framework level hosting provider. Wordpress has it, Nextjs has it and now Laravel has it. There is no Rails equivalent.
Yeah, I’m very familiar with them. But they never really were a framework specific platform or at least did not go in that direction very long. Now they are explicitly a framework agnostic PaaS.
being language or framework specific is not make sense either, do you rather have bussiness that tied to 1 framework userbase vs multiple framework supported platform????
Not really. While I prefer rails’ stance of “you can’t pay me for my open source”, laravel having a commercial model around developer tooling made them at least more responsive to their community’s dx wishes.
Still, for me, having a fully open source first party tool like kamal is much better than a commercial offering, no matter how convenient it may be.
I'm not a php guy, or a MVC guy, or really anything in their ecosystem... but I will say Taylor Otwell and his team do an amazing job at their little slice of the developer world. Again, not my cup of tea but we need to give credit where credit is due, they are doing a great job. "unmatched" is hyperbole obv, but the sentiment is fair
I don't know if I agree with GP but this is a subjective claim, no? You can pull out a bunch of metrics by which Laravel surpasses other frameworks, and some where they don't, but the call is going to either side by licking a thumb and sticking it in the air.
