Is CodeIgniter development dead?

[eluser]John Fuller[/eluser]
Fast paced development and bleeding edge have never been selling points of CodeIgniter. It even started out with an emphasis of being PHP 4.x compatible so that you could install it on any hosting provider. Back in the day it was closed to outside contributions and people complained about the same sorts of things people are complaining about in this thread. Ellislab probably worked on it whenever they could get to it, which means it probably went for some good stretches without getting touched. Despite all this, it took off.

ExpressionEngine is running on CodeIgniter and Ellislab has a paid team behind it. It's not the latest in ninja technology, but if I were betting on web frameworks which last, CodeIgniter would be one of them.

Anyways, what is a modern web framework these days? The jury is still out, but perhaps it looks more like Silex. Something small and simple that you can build an API with while you push more work to the device on the other end (mobile app, desktop browser, etc.) The sort of web framework that you could build yourself, but you don't have to bother with because someone else did a pretty good job already.

In other words, quit worrying and get back to work.