First, remember that "core contributor" doesn't just mean "developer." You could also be a documenter, tester, debugger, or even just an idea-person. I suspect that having a proper framework in place could be beneficial to most of those roles. Also, you said "non-core developer" - does that mean you are a contrib developer? Wouldn't the same environment be useful for the same reasons? There is a goal that, by 2014, one percent of Drupal.Org members be core-contributors. We'd all benefit from you thinking about becoming a 1%-er. Nancy Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.
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I currently use Codeigniter as my PHP framework. I'm considering the pros and cons of moving to a different framework. For non-core developers, how much advantage is there likely to be in knowing/being comfortable with Symfony2 when Drupal 8 rolls around? Or will all the Symfony stuff be under the hood?