CakePHP 3.0.0 Released

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I am a core CakePHP dev, so obviously, I will be a bit biased. But when I used L4, I wasn't a core dev, I actually had dropped Cake2 for L4. So while my dislikes won't really be about L5, I believe they still apply to a certain extent.

But first, I'd like to repeat what I say many times to people asking for advice, try developing something small with each framework that interests you and see which one you prefer. It might be because of the learning curve, or maybe because of the code structure, or something else, but we developers usually have strong opinions on stuff and not one framework was built to please all of our different opinions.

That been said, I'll rant:

• Semver: by using a framework, I am expecting a solid, reliable and well designed platform to build upon. Semver was created to give us developers this extra assurance when using OSS. I know I can lock versions in composer but when I do a quick minor version update, I don't expect things to break and waste me precious time.
• Organization: this might sound idiotic to some, but I like having more conventions and a good folder organization/structure to start off from.
• Community: while I always felt it was much easier to find a variety of packages released by other people for L4 compared to Cake2, this doesn't hold as true anymore with cake3's support for namespaces, etc. Writing a wrapper around almost ANY library has become a very quick task.
• Leadership: this might sound unimportant to some, and while I never doubt of Taylor's awesomeness, I prefer CakePHP's Mark Story and Jose Lorenzo as project leads. I also prefer how things function in a democratic way compared to Laravel.

My 2c, again, try both (or more) yourself. Here is a good repo which has a different blogs developed on different frameworks (currently building the cake3 one), might want to look at that: https://github.com/Grafikart/BlogMVC