A better language library

[eluser]Negligence[/eluser]
I understand what you're saying. Technically, it loads the data from the $lang array, but it only passes back what you need.

It was a design decision because trying to maintain, update strings, and translate thousands of words/phrases for applications became a nightmare with files for the same language. This simplifies things tremendously.

If this design choice is a serious concern to you, I'm surprised you use CI at all because of the many things it does that makes it more inefficient than it could be. The way the database class returns results, the Benchmark class being loaded by default, etc.. You might be surprised.