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Pro Uses Volt template engine
The Volt template engine, which is embedded into Phalcon itself takes it's inspiration from the Jinja template engine and as such it's nice to look at, with a clear and understandable syntax.
Volt also compiles very fast, like Phalcon itself, so it avoids being a bottleneck for the framework's overall speed.
Pro Customizable with Zephir
Zephir is a high-level language designed to create PHP extensions easily by PHP programmers with no knowledge in C.
Zephir does this by compiling directly to C and then the C program is in turn compiled to be run as a PHP extension. This, coupled with the fact that Zephir's syntax is very similar to PHP makes it a perfect way for PHP developers to use it for customizing Phalcon.
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Phalcon
Recommended 6 years ago
Using it since version 1, it's at version 3 with minimal breaking changes. Prior to PHP 7 it dominated in speed. With PHP 7 it's still insanely fast and uses low resources. You must install stubs in your editor to get autocomplete. The learning curve is a bit easier than Laravel - both of which are g...
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Extremely fastPro
Uses Volt template enginePro
Customizable with ZephirPro
Loosely coupled componentsPro
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