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I don't agree with Symfony being inherently "very heavy". As set of framework components, you can any part you find useful, and wire to together yourself, if necessary. e.g.

https://symfony.com/doc/current/configuration/micro_kernel_t...

Many other PHP projects, such as Laravel and Drupal pick-and-choose Symfony framework components in this way.

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Sorry, I should have clarified "heavy" in terms of the level of OOP [1] insanity but yeah Symfony is very modular.

[1] e.g. "Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Loader\Configurator\ContainerConfigurator"

> in terms of the level of OOP [1] insanity

I would have to question how relevant a piece of core plumbing is to a regular user of the framework, as a regular user of the framework would likely never come across this class.

Also if you're working in the domain as a Symfony core developer, the idea of a ContainerConfigurator is not so insane, if you're developing a dependency injection container.

Look at what I was replying to. The guy commented about the amount of OOP in PHP.

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