Code Igniter vs Laravel

In response to my previous post.

When I said "advanced php programmers" I was in no way knocking any codeigniter programmers. All I meant was that the programmers and developers of laravel are using some of the most advanced php functionality while codeigniter is not. Sure, you can easily implement them into codeigniter yourself, but that's not the point. Unfortunately with how far behind codeigniter has fallen behind you start losing out on some benefits of being a top framework.

For example, if you go through packagist for composer packages, you'll notice that many of the top packages are specifically written to work with Laravel and it's service providers. Sure they'll work with any other framework, but you may be missing out on some functionality.