Ask HN: Symfony Framework?

I think Laravel's popularity, which is greater than Symfony, mandates Symfony's continued experience.

Laravel uses a tonne of Symfony packages under the hood.

The other thing is that I think they serve different purposes.

Laravel makes a lot of decisions for you. There's a structure and conventions out of the box. It's like the Rails of PHP at the moment. This makes it great for small to medium sized projects and especially rapid prototyping.

Symfony doesn't do this. It's a component, configuration based framework. This is great where the flexibility is needed. Larger projects are a prime example.

Symfony core components are also the foundation of Silex, which I find to be a more straight-forward and less opinionated framework than Laravel. https://silex.symfony.com/