I just started studying to become a programmer, its composed of 4 semesters but, kind of expensive and after graduating I do not know if I will get jobs,,, so its very frustrating already,,, would you suggest me to just quick and study by own with cheap online courses and keep trying or, is a degree helps ?

Because Laravel is still (2024) slow af. If you want to develop a bigger, scalable application, it 's not recommended to use Laravel at all. There are benchmarks out there, that compare the most used PHP frameworks and Laravel almost takes the last place at all of them. That 's no matter of PHP. That 's a matter of Laravel and how it is build. It 's still a PHP framework in a traditional way. It brings you all that you might don 't need. Other frameworks like Laminas (former Zend Framework) and Symfony have evolved into component collections. You can install only the components you want to use and might need. Laravel for simple websites? Yeah, sure. Use it. But if you want to develop APIs, that are used by more than two users, don 't use Laravel.

Now in 2024, Wordpress is running over 40% (!!!) of all websites in the world. That is mind blowing 🤯 😮

There is way too much knowledge in this video, honestly. Thank you sir.

may be you don't have idea about springboot. also you seems unaware of lartest in java. just for the sake of video you are speaking rubbish.

Palm trees in Canada?

Uncle Stef, Thanks again for an awesome video and great advice. I am currently a Junior DBA working on completing my A.A.S. in "Database Administration"; I used to invest in index funds but hadn't recently. This video helped me realize I need to get back to investing for compound interest and much more. Thanks again for the good advice as always!

AI is already replacing programmers. With the help of AI a programmer can now do at least twice as before in the same time frame.

Thank you! What platforms, azure?

Late to the show and someone probably already said it, but another thing Laravel is very often used for is to build very powerful and robust admin dashboards, customer support microsites and APIs. Of course those projects wouldn't appear as amazing websites on the internet. I've worked with Heineken before (14.6b USD net worth company) and we've created admin dashboards and apis for them in Laravel.

Thank you, Stef! I'm surprised you didn't joke about Ruby. I would actually like to try Ruby someday, just to understand why people make fun of it haha. Also, I've seen DHH do pretty cool stuff, very fast with Rails

This guy knows once you use the mx master mouse theres no going back to anything else

About 80% of the web is PHP, best most loved CMS are PHP based. This is coming from someone who has used C# ASPX, python django, nodejs expressJS, etc., PHP is still more stable.

One thing I forgot:c++ brings you closer to the machine, and you get less obsessed with "coding". You start to see programming for what it is: changing the state of the machine ie of the computer.

Thanks Uncle... ❤

Why does uncle Stef dislikes c++ so much? Some of us have a specific eay of learning:I couldn't understand anything in those easy languages. I had no idea what web developers were saying. My older brother, a javascript and php dev tried to teach me frontend. All I remembered was word salad:html, css, js, drupal, joomla, bootstrap, less, saas, codeigniter, laravel, cms this and that, wordpress, yadda yadda yadda. I almost gave up on programming. Until I came to c++ for knowledge and understanding. Writing pong game in pure terminal gives you better understanding than making portfolio website. Progrmming is not like learning kid songs out loud in elementary school.

I swear everything you say I agree with. I need to stop being so beguiled by your analysis. Keep up the good work!

Just found your videos. This is helpful in trying to gain focus on changing careers. I am 60 and overweight. But I already have my CS degree in Management Information System and I know how to code. I am taking steps to loosing the weight. But I am looking at LinkedIn Learning to update my skills since I have that license available to me for free. I miss coding, so this is motivating. Approaching things differently now after watching what you said. Thank you! Going to check out all your other videos.

Interesting ... Thankyou ... 💚💛❤🙏

Some wise words there. As a senior php developer I agree with every word.

This did elaborated a lot for beginners and mediocre level of programmers.

And Java is getting more bloated and bureaucratic every day.

Facebook is a PAAS

lol i laughed at the excel guy not telling anyone he did 10 minutes of work a day/week. smart guy

Can i put my saas on google cloud servers and it will work good?

Love so much your video ❤❤❤

I don't think java is slow to code when you have a good IDE like intellij. But definetly package management in java needs a revolution, that is f* slow

2024 here and Ruby on Rails is still used by a lot of startup because it’s fast to ship a web app with. It’s still use by big companies like GitLab, Twitch etc.

Wife's client had an existing Wordpress site with custom code that did something far outside Wordpress' expertise. It was painful to use - and almost useless. It literally sometimes took over 30 seconds for it to react to a button press. Using a side-learning-project I'd written a few years before ( for an online game ), I wrote a new SPA app that reacted within 1/2 second, and a couple of new ( and thus far unique ) features. Over the subsequent 4 years, I have added quite a few features in my spare time, and the number of users has grown to a couple thousand. Now the client is pivoting and attempting to sell to a few larger clients - any of whom would have 2,000 - 4,000 users and concomitantly larger storage requirements and such. Server-side, it uses PHP + SlimPHP + MariaDB. Browser uses AngularJS ( 1.x ). New requirements are primarily security, SSO, and integration with a google API. This requires me to FINALLY look at scaling, client separation, and so-on. After five years. And, it's not certain he'll sell to these entities - but it's quite possible. So, I'll be going to laravel server-side and Vue for the browser. Though it's hard to type with your fingers crossed.

new java is actually great .

Hi, Uncle Stephan. You stated that 99.9 % of chance, our website or app won't be needed to scale. My question is from where did you get that information? From my point of view, an app will need to scale in some scenarios such as 1. Increased user traffic. 2. Higher data volume. 3. Performance requirements 4. Geographic expansion 5. Feature expansion 6. reability and redundancy 7. Regulatory compliance 8. Cost efficiency 9. User behavior changes. 10. Competitive pressure. And so on.

what about C# as first language?

Hi Stefan, I watched a video in which you mentioned a blood condition which was treated by a chinese medicine doctor. I think you were referring to ITP. I have the same condition. Would mind sharing details name/contact of the doctor.

Thank you.

thanks !

6:16 English, for the most part

I'm relatively "new", I'm 23 right now, but I think, and that's my opinion, that to a guy to be so likeable, as you said in 3:20, he will need to have a girlfriend/wife that pushes him up. I 100% believe that being alone and just living by yourself won't build up that "friendly" and "happy" persona 😅 (Sorry for the misspellings)

I'm an accountant in elementary school in Serbia and I'm currently developing accounting software for public funding users (such as an elementary school 😅 ). I've used 2 different accounting softwares at work and I found many flaws in both. And one of them is really expensive, the other is cheap. They are both desktop apps. I'm using Java Spring Boot and Nuxt. I'm almost done, now I'm building different templates for various reports, which is one of the last steps. It took me about a months so far. Last year I developed invoice management web app which helped me learn a lot. I attended two Java internships at large companies where I also learned a lot. But it's difficult to find junior developer position in Serbia right now, so I'm just working as an accountant and developing web app as a hobby. But my goal is to sell it to someone from 2025. I'm going to use it at work, but it's illegal to charge due to conflict of interest. Sorry for the long comment. Cheers ❤

Nice 🎤!

Next SaaS video should be about Marketing.

Thanks papa for these gold nuggets!!! You're the best!!!

Theory never but never reflects the reality you must do it not talk

4:29 thats what she said lol

Thanks Dad

I'm in the process of building my own micro saas using flutter and laravel . If I'm not successful , anyways I have learnt a lot so it is not wasted time.

Why no golang, exept for the db drivers, you probably do not need any packages. It compliles into a signle binary, super easy to deploy and the compilation time is sub 2 seconds allowing to live reload while you code

Sir What stack o f tech should we use.

Thanks Stefan. What would you say is the average time in years that it takes to go from junior to mid and then to senior?

Hey Steph... I just wanted to say thankyou for the time and effort you put into your studioweb course. I have ADHD and when you change scenes, make jokes, brush off the lens, bring out a paper pad, change the snake (python) photo... it all gives me a chuckle and keeps me interested and studying. Just wanted to say thanks.

I use c++ almost every day. I have made two app with it, a statistical analysis app and another to make registration connecting to MySql server using qt creator fremework