I'm really glad to see I'm not the only one that feels the performance drop is painful, nowadays the only thing I do backend are API's, thus a lot of the features (like blade) are superfluous to me. I hope Lumen will kind of fix this, and be the perfect go-to framework for API's done in PHP.
Having said that, looking at the future it would make a lot more sense to switch to a different language altogether, it's a same my current employer only wants to run php backend (because it's 1 command to install, I know bad reason, but they don't want to support other languages).
Why exactly are you looking at Scala or Go? I kind of get Scala (but I'd personally rather opt for Clojure), but why Go? Purely because it's much more performant than php? Doesn't this has to do with the lacking of such a full-featured framework like laravel?
Having said that, looking at the future it would make a lot more sense to switch to a different language altogether, it's a same my current employer only wants to run php backend (because it's 1 command to install, I know bad reason, but they don't want to support other languages). Why exactly are you looking at Scala or Go? I kind of get Scala (but I'd personally rather opt for Clojure), but why Go? Purely because it's much more performant than php? Doesn't this has to do with the lacking of such a full-featured framework like laravel?