codeigniter and Elislabs

[eluser]stevezissou[/eluser]

Creating a version of CodeIgniter which takes advantage of modern functionality would realistically involve a rewrite, turning CodeIgniter into “yet another framework”.

I wouldn't say a rewrite would make it into "yet another framework". Doing so implies that it's in the same league as some of these other half-baked, PHP frameworks that crop up every month. CI still is a stable, proven framework with a large user/install base after all. At some point every framework will need major overhauls to keep up with new developments in whatever language they are built on. Just have a look at what Django went through to support Python 3. You certainly wouldn't say Django is "yet another framework" after all it went through to support Python 3.