Poll: Do you use Composer with CI4?

This might not be what John_Betong want to says.

Installing CodeIgniter with git took 1m 57s, and installing with Composer took 16s.

$ time git clone https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4.git
...
real 1m56.535s
user 0m16.447s
sys 0m10.845s

$ time composer create-project codeigniter4/appstarter project-root
...
real 0m16.110s
user 0m2.898s
sys 0m4.115s

My GitHub clone - download times:

$ date && git clone https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4.git && date
Fri Apr 15 02:52:37 PM +07 2022
Cloning into 'CodeIgniter4'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 173834, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (6840/6840), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1170/1170), done.
remote: Total 173834 (delta 5721), reused 6742 (delta 5653), pack-reused 166994
Receiving objects: 100% (173834/173834), 84.69 MiB | 8.76 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (139577/139577), done.
Fri Apr 15 02:53:01 PM +07 2022

My Symphony - download time:

date && composer create-project codeigniter4/appstarter CodeApp && date
Fri Apr 15 02:57:38 PM +07 2022
Creating a "codeigniter4/appstarter" project at "./CodeApp"
Info from https://repo.packagist.org: #StandWithUkraine
Installing codeigniter4/appstarter (v4.1.9)
  - Downloading codeigniter4/appstarter (v4.1.9)
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Created project in /var/www/CodeApp
Loading composer repositories with package information
Info from https://repo.packagist.org: #StandWithUkraine
Updating dependencies
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Fri Apr 15 02:57:47 PM +07 2022

[b]Github - 24 seconds - 3,276 items, totalling 105.1 MB[/b]

Fri Apr 15 02:52:37 PM +07 2022
Fri Apr 15 02:53:01 PM +07 2022

[b]Symphony -  8 seconds - 3,288 items, totalling 21.8 MB[/b]

Fri Apr 15 02:57:38 PM +07 2022
Fri Apr 15 02:57:47 PM +07 2022

I think the difference is mostly due to the User Guide.