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I'm fairly language agnostic. What keeps me working in PHP is the Laravel framework, with all of the application plumbing and core functionality built-in and tested for me, so all I have to do is write the code specific to my application. Every once in a while I search for other frameworks but still haven't found anything that competes.

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I also like Laravel, though nowadays Symfony wins it for me. But it's probably also a matter of taste.

Doctrine's DataMapper vs. Eloquent's ActiveRecord pattern and the use of configuration in Symfony vs. convention in Laravel (e.g. facades) are my 2 main pain points with Laravel.

But having 2 big frameworks is awesome, both are upping their game constantly and the whole ecosystem is benefitting. (E.g. I use Laravel's Homestead for Symfony development, but I might also use Blackfire.io to improve Laravel performance).

It’s possible to use a data mapper in Laravel though, and it works very well!

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