SMRTR ProgrammingMar 29, 2026Daily.dev

Why Big PHP Frameworks Waste Your Time

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A developer spent a month evaluating popular PHP frameworks (Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter) for an IoT digital signage project but found them bloated and resource-heavy for embedded hardware with limited RAM. After rejecting these heavyweight frameworks due to poor performance, vendor lock-in, and overengineering, they chose SLIM4 with Mustache templates and curated Composer libraries for a lean, efficient solution.

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