@alcinnz I accidentally got back into PHP a bit, after having done mostly Rust, Go and Python for a couple of years.
It's.. not really that bad? Lots of new developments in the language itself. Better performance when coupled with something like FrankenPHP & running persistently, so your whole app doesn't have to be loaded for every request.
Poking around with Laravel 11 now, and liking the opinionated solutions. For internal dashboards etc, the web part itself isn't what needs to be fast.