Is CodeIgniter development dead?

[eluser]Alucemet[/eluser]
[quote author="InsiteFX" date="1400295076"]The only way CI will ever be like the other newer frameworks is with a complete re-write from the ground up.
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It can be done. I made my own framework, and some components are from CI. Originally they were mostly from CI, but then found that I liked other components better. For instance doctrine DBAL instead of CI DB. Swift mailer instead of CI email. The one thing I like batter about CI than most frameworks is the routing to controllers, so I built something similar for my routing. For sessions I went with a DB storage only approach. Auth is built in, and most CI helpers were turned into classes. Overall it still has a very CI feel to it, but it's using Pimple for a DI container, Composer for autoloading, and no attempt is ever made to be compatible with older versions of php. This is just the way I roll, which it think is a pretty modern approach.

So why not rewrite CI? Better now than waiting, especially If CI will ever become popular again. There's no hope of that happening without breaking backwards compatibility and making something that modern devs want to use.

Also, THE LICENSE! Let's have MIT or BSD. The license for CI3 is fucking retarded.