When I see articles like this, I often wonder why the developers do not look beyond their current language of choice. I can understand it if they are stuck with business restrictions passed down from "on high", but a developer should not limit his choices purely on the basis of his current language preference.

The last time I considered Symfony was a couple years back when I was searching for a decent framework for my own sites. I considered CakePHP as well, and even took it for a spin. But then I decided to broaden my horizons and look at other languages. It was then that I discovered Django, which caught my eye chiefly because of its speed vs. Cake and Symfony. It has served me well for the last couple of years.

Eventually, I will probably move beyond Django. I may even (gasp!) check Rails out again, or look toward Java when the time is right.

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I have exactly the same problem with magento. although they call themselves the leaders in open source e-commerce, the oly thing they have open is the code.

Why _i_ wouldn't use Symfony for a new project: http://lithify.me

Time to switch? Time to fork.