Is CodeIgniter development dead?

[eluser]albertleao[/eluser]
Phalcon is a really interesting framework.

I personally chose Codeigniter 3 years ago for my startup. It has helped a lot but I have definitely run into some speed bumps along the way which I have now learned is because of it's older code base. In the end, I still launched my application with many users, a front end for a desktop, mobile, and phone app, and a backend that handles all 3 versions of my application on codeigniter; All of which is hosted up on Amazon AWS and uses composer packages.

I love it and it's great but I've had to tweak so much of the system that I'm completely married to the Codeigniter framework and will need to do a lot of code review and testing when upgrading to 3.0.

Still a great framework, I think a lot of us are just wondering what the future holds. I've grown accustomed to using Composer + Packagist, ORMS and other features that simply aren't super easy with Codeigniter.

I installed PHPActiveRecord via Sparks and love it, but when you compare that to some of the new ORMS out there like Eloquent for Laravel, Doctrine, or ActiveRecord for Rails (I don't mean to start a php vs ruby war), it's very far behind.

Either way, the I think we're all just excited to see what's to come.