[jamesfinlayson]

Agreed - I think most programming language communities have settled on one major framework (though there are plenty of other smaller ones) and they've survived.

Spring: June 2003

Rails: August 2004

Django: July 2005

Symfony: October 2005

[woranl]

Many don’t survive. You mentioned Symfony, Zend used to be equally popular. Not many people use it now.

[jamesfinlayson]

Oh I agree - 15 years ago picking a web framework would have been much more difficult - for web frameworks now though I think that using the most popular choice should be quite safe.

[kgeist]

Symfony is actually more like several different frameworks under the same name. Some of our projects are stuck with Symfony 1 and upgrading them to the latest version is aking to switching the frameworks because they have almost nothing in common.