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Wait, learn same thing twice? Are you not familiar with Laravel at all?

How experienced are you with OO programming? Do you understand SOLID principles? Familiar with git? Composer?

Laravel 5 is definitely awesome, and I'm using it in a project for a client right now, but it's had some hiccups for sure. If you're not extremely confident, I'd recommend Laravel 4.2. It's not going to be like re-learning from scratch and all of your knowledge is rendered useless when you switch to Laravel 5.

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laravel has been a doing big leaps... from 3 - 4 was a big change, then 4 - 5 is another big change. It's like every new major change is a new paradigm.

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Unless 5 is a strict requirement I would recommend with 4.2. I just find that any new technology takes a few months at least to mature, the documentation, resources (videos, tutorials, forum threads anything else), gotchas to be available.

Relearning - well, as a programmer - that is an occupational hazard (or opportunity, depending on how you look at it I suppose).

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I am having the same issue, I work on CodeIgniter and waiting till Laravel 5 become stable to jump.

I've got a project that will take sometime to finish, was expecting it to be the perfect timing if I can do that in laravel 5.

4.2 and 5 has a lot of changes I guess, every time I composer update, it breaks my code ;-( Now I am reverting everything back to CodeIgniter. Maybe I am not ready for Laravel yet.

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I'm familiar with git and composer is a really nice thing!
As for OO programming - I know Java & C++. OO principles & design patterns are not a problem for me. I know that the programming = learning, but I wonder if it's worth to learn the things the 4.2 way and then switch to 5.

@mikerogne - that's a good sign for me that you're using it for a client.

Thanks a lot for all the insight.

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