stupid question, is there a company behind laravel?

Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web framework, created by Taylor Otwell and intended for the development of web applications following the model–view–controller (MVC) architectural pattern.

Thanks @arslion but it doesn’t answer to the question.

I think you should visit http://www.laravel.com/

I don't want to sound rude, obviously I read the home page and the docs.

There are reasons why those project aren't maintained by a single person, the most simple is to provide support for some kind of customers.

Is Laravel that kind of project? or it's a framework made with love with no intention to build directly a business model (except laracast, spark, etc etc) ?

At the moment it's a open source package largely controlled by Taylor. The various paid-for services he runs like forge, spark and his new patreon offer let him work on the framework pretty much full-time.

Possibly in time there will be some kind of 'laravel foundation' or something. But remember that laravel is only ~5yrs old from inception. Symfony is ~10yrs and Django is a bit more than that.

But we'll see I guess :-)

Has Laravel been acquired now (by Acquaint Softtech Private Limited) ? https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/laravel

• Laravel LLC
• Laravel Holdings Inc (from early 2024)

https://github.com/laravel/laravel.com/pull/321