In recent decades the PHP community has gone through some major changes. First, we saw billion-dollar platforms like Facebook adopting PHP as a primary language. Then tools like the Laravel framework quickly rose in popularity as it enabled the community to quickly build modern applications. Finally, PHP 7 gave the language a bright future with performance improvements and features like type hinti
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