Is CodeIgniter development dead?

[eluser]koreldan[/eluser]
[quote author="Alucemet" date="1400286606"]At this point I don't think the question should be if development is dead, but if there is a future for CI. I don't mean a future where a small community sticks up for it, but a future where the professional developer community embraces it, uses it, loves it. Honestly, for me, I'd be embarrassed to say, and would never call myself a "CI developer", or that it is my coding foundation of choice.

The code is truly legacy in nature, and while fully tested and "fully baked", the PHP community has mostly moved on. Most modern frameworks are now built with a common structure, and we're now running websites on PHP 5.5.X.

Maybe the question should be, what can CI do to be the framework most devs want to use?[/quote]

For veteran and middle skilled developers would be nice to have a frameworks detailed technical comparison without following fashioned new low life frameworks before choosing new one to invest time and money on.

Would be useful also to understand if CI3 innovations are enough to (self or community) implement ci_session to choose this last version for those customer that not have an hosting with SSH access with right permissions or installed libraries on server.


For new entry developer would be nice to understand what version start to study to easily learn only MVC logic with simple, complete and power framework to build firsts or most projects till getting good idea what framework dress better his way of programming on web.

In last case, entry level have to learn CI2 at the moment, having to migrate or rewrite their projects in a future CI3 release.
With a little community implementation of CI3 they could start learning directly on last and more updated version.