Reactor vs Core

[eluser]Daniel Moore[/eluser]
I certainly won't be complaining about Reactor. Reactor is very necessary.

I am the type of person, however, that will wait for version 8 of a program to come out before I upgrade to version 7, because when I've got something that already works for me, I don't change it very often. I'm still using MS Office 2000 after 10 years. When it comes to upgrading my framework, I want it to work with my web sites, but I don't want to have to upgrade my websites very often. That's extra work on my end that I don't want to have to deal with. That's probably the biggest reason I won't jump to Reactor, and if I do, I won't keep it updated as regularly as Reactor updates, just so I don't have to change my code base as often.

However, I am jumping on the 2.0 bandwagon, because I like the way it separates things into packages and gets rid of plugins. I also like dropping PHP 4 support and having more PHP 5 functionality. I will be following what Reactor does, because I may want to merge some of their work into my core if it strikes me.

The real power of Reactor is not in "bells and whistles" because that isn't what I understood the project to be about. It's about getting changes made faster, because the whole community is now able to participate and submit code for review, which is reviewed by 6 vetted programmers who will then decide what is best for the project and submit it. Once placed into Reactor, then EllisLab will take it and examine it to see if it should become part of Core. That way, EllisLab doesn't have to look at everyone who started to program PHP 2 days ago and see what changes they think should be made.

I can't think of a better system to get CodeIgniter moving forward.

Think of it this way... "Reactor" is what "reacts" to the suggestions we make and the bugs we report to make CodeIgniter better, faster, and more stable than ever before in the past. No, I won't complain about it. I'll give my support to those working on it, even if I don't adopt it as my main code base, which I probably won't partially due to my aversion to the $_GET support (yes, I know it can be turned off, but on by default offends my CodeIgniter programming ways), and partially due to "I don't like to upgrade more than every 6 months unless it's a security fix."