[cutler]

But isn't this exactly what Symfony users accuse Laravel of - too much magic? Laravel's facades are as magical as anything in Rails and Laravel does a lot of code injection. It takes more than one man's opinion to establish a truth.

[pdimitar]

In that case I have been misled by that acquaintance of mine and I apologise for unintentionally spreading misinformation.

(In that case, let's replace Laravel with Phoenix.)