CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@peach too many things.

type declarations, traits (everywhere), no final, attributes, facades, eloquent (magic everywhere/god class), Macroable, No strict typing ( Girgias/unify-typing-modes-rfc passes), Bad encapsulation (protected memebers because everything "extends" something) tight coupling, global function (namespace please), Dependency Injection (composition)

#Laravel often ignores widely accepted best practices for a long time, and then when it finally adopts them, it presents the change as if it just discovered something new… even though the broader #PHP community has been pointing out the issues for years.