CodeIgniter Does It For Me

Sorry, I don't mean to be marketing Laravel here. Just from a purely business perspective, it would be stupid not to realize competition and the benefits of seeing what they may be doing that we're not doing.

I think Laravel is way to bloated in some aspects, and has some good features in other aspects. Marketing has taken them a long ways, but at the end of the day, a working product is what makes or breaks you.

I'm not going to sit here and dissect every sentence in a post, but I do believe that catering to Laravel and talk of other frameworks and not shutting down any positive talk about competitive frameworks would be a good start to possibly inviting new blood into Codeigniter. I'd love to copy some of the best features in Laravel, Cake, Rails, Phoenix.... and have them in Codeigniter in a "CI way". It's easy to have similar features that other frameworks have, but it's difficult for other frameworks to have the simplicity/flexibility of Codeigniter.

I'm sure you see what I just said as not what I was doing before, and if that's the case, I apologize again, but I was just trying to state facts as I saw them.

Codeigniter is simply one of the tools you need to learn to be a successful developer. Always add more tools to your coding arsenal!