Future of CodeIgniter?

[eluser]Scriptor[/eluser]
Awesome discussion going on here. I like Sock Puppet's explanation of why EllisLab is still doing great, even though it distributes an unobfuscated (I assume) version of EE with all of their plans, and they have a free plan as well. Definitely a business model worth looking into. Besides, I don't think EE is intended for low budget developers. There will still be plenty of fairly well off clients who are willing to pay the extra for their developers to get all EE has to offer.

Now, to the topic of where CI's going. There will be some new libraries but I highly doubt that besides maybe a Javascript wrapper any of them will get in the core. EllisLab has done a good job with including almost everything a PHP developer would need to build a decent and fully-functional web app. If we're talking about 1.6.3 or 1.7, then (I hope) they will come out with a few tweaks to the validation class, mostly in displaying errors more nicely.

It's simply awesome that EllisLab is deciding to rewrite EE with CI. If and when they show that the framework works well with commercial-grade (enterprise?) software, AND they are willing to provide support for any problems...that tells you something. Although CI is fast already, there is always room for improvement (it's still got some overhead, after all) so the developers might find novel ways of speeding things up. I am sure that bugs and security holes will be fixed faster now since their own software depends on it.