The hardest part on starting something new – apart the architecture – is the tools you’ll use. Since we’re still in a planning phase of c3x we are looking here and there for the latest frameworks on which to base the development.

Since one of our main concerns is speed, it’s hard to evaluate all the different frameworks. Everyone of them have something that the other doesn’t.

Something that could ease a bit the decision is this comparison made here. It’s based on the number of include calls made by the boot-up of the framework. Some examples can be seen here :

Symphony 1.1

Zend Framework 1.5.2

CakePHP

CodeIgniter

So the decision doesn’t look so hard…

I’ll wait your comments…

Before i forget you can read the full post here