What it's like to work with Symfony after Laravel?

@Sinnbeck I was wondering if transition to Symfony is painful for a Laravel developer?

@darknmy I don't use symfony fully, but I use a ton of their components. And many of them I use in laravel. Laravel itself has a lot of components build on top of symfony. So I would say it should give you a good start. Symfony does some things differently than laravel but if you know how to use a lot of the components all ready, it should reduce what you need to learn

@darknmy It has a much steeper learning curve, and not as flexible as laravel. I have only experimented with it for learning. Some things are kind of forced on you to do a certain way.

That is why I prefer laravel, Taylor does not make you have to use only one template language,

My main three were laravel, cakephp, and yii2. But I have dropped yii now, and will probaby drop cakephp, not sure yet.

The doctrine ORM is pretty powerful, kind of similar to hibernate ORM in some ways. Been a long time, but I imagine there have been changes to both over the years.