9 engineers on Hacker News describe using Composer first-hand: 5 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Composer actually is a decent value.”
endorse · production · jeremyjh · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“After using composer-1, it feels painful to switch back to other models.”
endorse · production · santoriv · 2025-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I can't imagine being solo indie and not leaning hard into Codex, CC, or Composer at this point.”
endorse · personal · wahnfrieden · 2025-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the requirements that composer introduced for auto installing addons made life complicated.”
regret · personal · Zachery · 2016-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The only dependency then is PHP and Composer, which I think is nice.”
endorse · production · girvo · 2014-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm sold on php because of symfony, composer, and really good documentation”
endorse · personal · jmgtan · 2013-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we include Composer (package manager) in the dev image only as we only need the installed dependencies in production”
neutral · production · AdrienPoupa · 2023-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“PHP has composer and we use that for third party integration”
neutral · production · simion314 · 2018-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use composer for installing components at build time with Docker (not on your host system directly)”
neutral · production · alexellisuk · 2017-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?