@Wojciech since phalcon can't be used on shared hosting, the only target should be enterprise where an application is usually used and being continuously developed for the next 5+ years. The only thing being updated is the minor version because of possible bug fixes and security fixes. With phalcon you can't do such updates since it will break the whole application.
@graphmatic very true, but if the work is not advertised most people won't know. That's why keeping the blog up to date with what's going on is important.
@stamster while projects like zephir and phalcon push php forward, that diagram doesn't mean so much in most real world application where your application is behind a varnish server and everything is being cached. With PHP7 being released are lots of people that no longer believe of such a big difference between phalcon and other frameworks.
About zf1 and symfony2 I agree that are damn slow and magento2 gives me the impression that is made by kids that just learned to code (total garbage), but still are used as industry standard; mostly because of marketing and making companies feel like are reliable on long term
Something to look in to
https://symfony.com/blog/push-it-to-the-limits-symfony2-for-high-performance-needs
@xeleniumz LTS version will mean nothing if the devs don't start using SemVer and keep going on with this mess.
Right now phalcon is mostly suitable for small or medium projects while the target should be enterprise, but for small projects you can use any framework since won't matter too much.
Lately on forum are keep popping questions about what's happening with phalcon which gets downvoted and answered with blind fan like answers. Those questions should be a signal that things might not look like they go entirely in the right direction.
To get phalcon to the next level, where it should be, we should take in to consideration:
- SemVer (since is an industry standard and make phalcon look more reliable)
- make sure it plays nice with mongo, oracle, postgre, redis
- enterprise ready
- keep the blog up to date with latest updates
- performance and architectural posts to push phalcon to the limits
- showcase of big websites and companies using phalcon as part of phalcon website and not as a side project