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title:      "Flow"
ring:       hold
quadrant:   languages-and-frameworks

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[Flow](https://flow.neos.io/) is a PHP web application framework developed for the [Neos](https://www.neos.io/) project.

We used Flow in a couple of projects and decided to put it on hold for the following reasons:

*   slow during development and hard to debug because of its need to "compile" the application to integrate e.g. AOP
*   limited documentation and community
*   development of the framework is closely coupled to the progress of the Neos project

Although it could be that some of the above-mentioned aspects have improved in the past, we decided to use other PHP frameworks such as [Symfony](http://symfony.com/) or other Languages (See [Go](/confluence/display/knowledge/Go); [Play Framework](/confluence/display/knowledge/Play+Framework); [Spring Boot](/confluence/display/knowledge/Spring+Boot))