And by what criterias you're making your assumption about what's better or not? I guess most people don't find "better" things of Symfony that better than Laravel's "better" things so this is the reason why Symfony is not used as much as Laravel.
Because I've made research, they both have advantages.
But for any big project, Symfony is way better.
And Symfony 4 is now light and heavy, as you need.
Symfony is now more flexible than Laravel, the community is doing much work...
And also, I've experience where Laravel was so limited.
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And by what criterias you're making your assumption about what's better or not? I guess most people don't find "better" things of Symfony that better than Laravel's "better" things so this is the reason why Symfony is not used as much as Laravel.
Because I've made research, they both have advantages.
But for any big project, Symfony is way better.
And Symfony 4 is now light and heavy, as you need.
Symfony is now more flexible than Laravel, the community is doing much work...
And also, I've experience where Laravel was so limited.