A couple questions about CodeIgniter 3 (not release date)

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[quote author="Otemu" date="1386588193"]If your not considering any other frameworks and set on developing with Codeigniter, I would develop with 2.1.4 as it quite stable, not sure when 3.0 will finally be released and what issues it will bring, some people have already started developing with 3.0 and some have commented on the forum to say it fine.

If your open to other framworks then investigate and see what suits your needs, Laravel seems to get a lot of the buzz right now. The most popular frameworks according to Google trends are:

Codeigniter, Zend Framework, CakePHP, Yii Symfony and Laravel
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I've spent a long time considering other frameworks, Laravel in particular. However, I've invested all my time into learning CodeIgniter and unless it's completely justified I can't really afford the time to learn a new framework when there are production deadlines. Moreover, all the websites we create are built using ExpressionEngine, so while it may not be entirely tied to EllisLabs any longer, it still felt logical to use CI as a framework in the case that there needed to be some communication between an EE site and a CI application.