[0xblinq]

What's a good framework from your point of view?

Or do you prefer to not use any framework and instead write your own one on the fly because you're probably going to do it a lot better with all the best practices and no bugs and great documentation?

[zmxz]

Why would you imply I tried to say anything against frameworks in general? My comment was specifically about Laravel because it was singled out as a great framework.

To indulge you, about good frameworks: Symfony, Aphiria. Aphiria in particular because it's small, cuts down on repetitive tasks and doesn't reinvent the language with things like "Macros" or abuse of Reflection or mishandled patterns like singletons - all of which Laravel gets wrong.

Symfony because of active development. Every large tool is bound to be bad at something. Symfony is no exception, however it's not an advertising platform - and Laravel is an advertising platform. Sane choice is to use the tool with maximum benefit and least negative impact.

[0xblinq]

So, what I said.

Micro frameworks that don’t do more than routing. I’d love to see those beautiful reinventions of the wheel people do when using “simple” frameworks for email, ORM, validations, authentication, authorization, cli commands, translations, error and performance reporting, etc etc.