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I just tried to two days ago and did a complete project with it. Auth, CRUD, file management, etc. It's an instant love for me. Docs is mostly ok, Google provides instant answers. I'm happy to ditch CodeIgniter for this.

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I spent two days just trying to get the thing installed and gave up. Kept hitting a snag somewhere. Such a bummer because I was excited about using it.

CodeIgniter... isn't exactly a high bar to beat.

In my experience people who love Laravel are typically CI or WP refugees. I am yet to encounter a single person who has switched from Symfony2 or ZF2 to Laravel and liked what they saw.

I switched from mostly Symfony2 to mostly Laravel and like it.

I doubt there are a lot of people switching from WP though, since WP and Laravel solve two different types of problems.

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