FWIW though checkout Symfony as well, a lot of what Laravel gets right Symfony got right first and a lot of what (imo) Laravel gets wrong Symfony also gets right.
Plus: It never hurts to see how the other side does things because it gives you the chance to steal bits that you might need later ;).
Exactly, both contribute towards a common goal and they can easily share code thanks to a common language.
I currently have an Invoker licence but if you can get the Eloquent Database Browser working and relatively bug-free I'll almost definitely use this instead. Invoker is great but is too buggy for me to bother with at the moment.
Tinkerwell was amazing when it was first released, but the price has increased, and now there are other free options which are nearly as good. I've let my licence lapse and use Laravel Tinker for PHPstorm instead.
Don't get me wrong - Marcel (lead dev for Beyond Code) is an excellent developer, and their apps are great. They'd be even better if they spent a bit (or a lot) more time fixing bugs though.
A very interesting concept. Although I would probably prefer this to be integrated into IDE plugins instead of yet another (likely electron) app.
Most IDE plug-in frameworks have access to the already configured language runtime/compiler/interpreter.
edit: Ah, I think they are referring to this: https://invoker.dev/ which is another tool for Laravel. I thought they had made a tool similar for another platform like ruby or python.
* Plugin play
* Painless email previews
* PHP code runner
