Not to sure how "fair" this comparison is. You see, both Symfony and Zend Framework are mostly components, doing kinda low-level-ish things. It probably means t

Not to sure how "fair" this comparison is. You see, both Symfony and Zend Framework are mostly components, doing kinda low-level-ish things. It probably means that overall their complexity is probably higher. A more fair comparison would be to compare Lavavel against both the Symfony HttpKernel component (which is the framework part of Symfony) and the Zend MVC module (which is framework part of Zend Framework). But then again, it's probably not that straight forward. I mean, when testing Laravel the Symfony HttpFoundation component is left out but when testing Symfony it's included, not really fair..