Is CodeIgniter development dead?

[eluser]Killswitch[/eluser]
[quote author="Alucemet" date="1369166358"]At this point, it's hilarious to hear talk by them about "new versions every few weeks". It has been SO long since there was a new version! Even if 3.0 is stable enough to use on my own websites, can I really take responsibility for coding up a customer's website in a under-cooked framework? Besides that, the community is suffering tremendously. It's no longer the cool framework that people are using, and you can tell by the quality of forum posts that the user base is dwindling except for newbs. In order to revitalize CodeIgniter, Ellislab would have to put some real time into it, and they'd probably have to break some backwards compatibility. They're not going to do either of those things, and so we'll just have to wait and see where things are in the next year. I anticipate them releasing 3.0 at some point but the PHP community totally rejecting it, and everyone who is serious about development moving on to Symphony, Laravel, Yii, etc, etc. It really sucks, because I use CodeIgniter every day, but feel like I'm going to be forced to abandon it, lest I lose my credibility as a developer. If you primary use CodeIgniter, who will hire you if they know what's up? Feeling defeated [/quote]

Can't speak for anyone else, but I use CodeIgniter because of it being so stable and not being updated with useless stuff that I don't need.... Backwards compatibility is also a huge thing for me... 90% of my customers who use my software written in CodeIgniter are still on PHP5.2+

So if you want to keep your "developer cred" and use the latest and greatest bleeding edge stuff to make yourself look like you know what you're doing, go ahead... CodeIgniter is not for you. I'm sure you'll want Laravel... But make sure once you write your code, you don't have to go back in a year and put in add-ons or update the framework, because chances are the whole framework has changed so drastically none of your code works anymore.

Me? I'll continue to use CodeIgniter.