Maybe he should have said: - Symfony2 has a way way better debug toolbar and profiler - a better integrated assets management (through Assetics and Capifony,

Maybe he should have said: - Symfony2 has a way way better debug toolbar and profiler - a better integrated assets management (through Assetics and Capifony, both external projects but a de-facto standard, also documented in the main docs) - a better documentation, focused on how to do, instead of how it works. (As a Zend advocate in some big companies in Italy, the most frequent question with ZF was "where to start?") - A better command line component - Even if loosely coupled (eg: Silex), Symfony2 identifies a standard set of components. So when I look for a freelance Symfony2 developer, I know for sure that he will master twig, assetics, doctrine, swiftmailer, the DI container ecc. - Symfony2 is now a year old, with an incredible amount of bundles available.