Is CodeIgniter development dead?

[eluser]WanWizard[/eluser]
I find this a bit of an odd remark.

Namespaces are abslutely needed to create separation and avoid class name collisions, especially if you have large and modular applications. It's one of the big limitations of CI.

Now you need to use stuff like "model_users" to avoid collisions, and where does that save you on typing compared to "\Model\Users" ?

The big advantage of namespaces is that you can make your application truely modular, and create reusable components, which reduces development a lot, especially if there is a theming/templating engine that allows you to separate the view logic from the component.

We've switched from CI to another framework two years ago due to the limitations of CI, and we have found that:
- on avarage we code a third faster
- code produced is much better maintainable and re-usable
- a framework in active development means getting new features for getting the job done even better
- it runs faster and uses a lot less memory for the same task

The last point btw is mainly due to the fact that to make something decent of CI, you'll have to bolt on tons of stuff that the framework doesn't provide, and you'll have to overload lots of system classes and hack your way into the core to deal with inadequacies in the core code.

I don't expect any major advances here. CI is a victim of it's own success. It didn't evolve, and is now stuck in the past. Modernizing it would basically mean rewriting the framework, but then it isn't CI anymore, and all your reasons to stick with it and not use a more modern framework would dissappear. A catch-22...