I don't totally agree with the author: coming fresh to php 5.3 without prior contact with the elephant isn't going to protect anyone from php's inherent inconsistencies or legacy way-of-doing-things for very long. I am specifically thinking about the different naming conventions for functions (sometimes underscore, sometimes not ). Of course my remark isn't about Laravel itself.

With that said I used to try every "small but efficient" framework when I was a web developper and I would surely have tried this one with enthusiasm.