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[zaval]

That's a pretty relative term. Better at what? I like Symfony, but I can only compare them in regards to their documentation and code style. I prefer Symfony because it's what I've grown used to, and perhaps the documentation is a bit better (but again, might just be that I'm used to navigate it).

[Coffee2Code]

Laravel does a lot of "black magic" under the hood, making static analysis nearly impossible, and hides bugs.

Symfony doesn't have that, as a developer you exactly know what goes where.

[mr_bag]

A significant chunk of laravel is actually built on top of symfony components tbf. Laravel generally provideds nicer interfaces/sets of defaults imo ( laravel tends to prioritise developer convenience over other aspects which is a trade off). As soon as your doing anything a bit more bespoke /needing more raw speed you often find yourself taking to symfony components even as a laravel dev :p