Just out of curiosity, when was the last time you worked with Symfony?
The framework has changed massively after the earliest versions (1~3). These days it's very similar to Java's SpringBoot. After scaffolding all you get is a thin layer with the HTTP abstraction, configuration support, reflection-based Dependency Injection and a testing framework (PHPUnit).
Since the framework is component-based you pull dependencies as you need them. I find the documentation really good and honestly I don't see much magic in it, it's an event-based web framework. Laravel and it's facades on the other hand is very magical.
Symfony is not great, but most people utterly misuse it so you end up with spaghetti and ground mud. That being said, Symfony is the most popular framework I know of that liberally uses goto statements.
I haven't worked very much with Symfony but I've never seen a goto. In fact, the last time I've seen a goto statement was maybe 15 years ago in a mIRC script.
Where are those goto statements? I'm asking out of curiosity to check them.
> These days it's very similar to Java's SpringBoot.
That's not a positive. Spring Boot is impossible to use for anything except an unmaintainable abomination, since the whole thing runs on undocumented magic.
The framework has changed massively after the earliest versions (1~3). These days it's very similar to Java's SpringBoot. After scaffolding all you get is a thin layer with the HTTP abstraction, configuration support, reflection-based Dependency Injection and a testing framework (PHPUnit).
Since the framework is component-based you pull dependencies as you need them. I find the documentation really good and honestly I don't see much magic in it, it's an event-based web framework. Laravel and it's facades on the other hand is very magical.