Like the author, I tried to like ZF2.0 - I failed for almost the same reasons. The ugliness of the escape-character-abuse for namespaces (what were they thinki

Like the author, I tried to like ZF2.0 - I failed for almost the same reasons. The ugliness of the escape-character-abuse for namespaces (what were they thinking?!) and the evolution of the Zend Framework 2.0 is what made me look at the ruby and rails stack. I do not agree with the microphp manifesto for several reasons, but the sheer amount of boilerplate code in ZF2 is getting in the way of "getting things done". Php's reputation in the enterprise world is not as bad as it used to be, but still has a "Gschmäckle". Why should use php / ZF when I can sell a Spring MVC application?