Much to the surprise and delight of the CodeIgniter core team and community members, CodeIgniter 5 was released today. The project has been in deep stealth mode for months, and it will probably take a few days for the download links to surface through the obscurity.
Key features of the new release: MVD, MRI & MCG.
- Model-View-Delegate (MVD) is a new core pattern, which lets developers model data and presentation, while delegating any logic to someone else, who will get blamed for any defects
- Mind Reader Interface (MRI) lets the framework read developers' minds, and automatically order espresso when it appears they are thinking too slowly, with speedy drone-delivery within 15 minutes
- Mindful Code Generation (MCG) uses the latest AI technology to generate pages of syntactically correct but useless code, perfect for those developers paid by lines-of-code
The new release goes beyond PHP7 and HipHop - it fully embraces New Country!
We caution developers not to destroy their current framework libraries, until the CodeIgniter 5 release has materialized on their desktop.
James Parry
Project Lead
