Laravel tutorials are a fruitful business because PHP still quite rightfully carries its legacy of being the noob language.
I’m sure that plenty of us used PHP in the day, have been doing something else for a while, and see these HN posts from the people that stuck by PHP singing its praises. Let’s not forget that there’s probably been a steady stream of newbies coming through the system the entire time - which makes the language, and by extension Laravel, a prime target for bottom feeding ‘one step ahead of the audience’ “educational” content producing scum.
I’m sure that plenty of us used PHP in the day, have been doing something else for a while, and see these HN posts from the people that stuck by PHP singing its praises. Let’s not forget that there’s probably been a steady stream of newbies coming through the system the entire time - which makes the language, and by extension Laravel, a prime target for bottom feeding ‘one step ahead of the audience’ “educational” content producing scum.