Authentication

@Narf You're the one only twisting the words here.

Really? You're just going to contradict me?
I've been very concrete, so I'd love if you can point out how I'm twisting your words.

Again, you assume too much. Just because I did not mention the words secure or security about auth implementation, creation, use, build, whatnot, doesn't mean I don't know half of it as you mentioned.

No, no, no ... You didn't just not mention those, you outright ignored me talking about "the words".
And so far you've been all talk and zero substance.

I took a web security test almost 3 years ago and an employer literally chased me for an entire year and willing to almost double my rate so I would join his team. So again, don't assume too much. I assure you, I know security concepts far more than what you "certainly" assume.

Right ... So convincing.

Let me be clear --there's a demand (product request) for auth in most frameworks.

Do you have a concrete idea about how it should look like?
If so, share it and I promise to explain the problems with it.
If not, I don't care about that demand, because there's demand for literally everything.

We've got almost 200 developers in my day job and a rough estimate 100% of them said that CI lacks all modern features including auth.

Yea, and the first thing they mention when referring to modern features is "PSR-2" - showing that just like you, those people talk too much and don't think enough.

This forum's Poll might only had around 35% who voted for this request out of only 14 votes, and that's because many of the CI developers (including 100% I personally know off) have moved to Laravel and literally (as in literally) have no plans getting back whatsoever because of this.

Don't care.

I referred to Laravel earlier because it's practically a direct, famous CI competitor and it now has Authentication, API Authentication and Authorization in it.

So ... CI should become a copy of its competitors?

But in any case, 35% are still hoping this gets implemented someday.

... in spite of the fact that we've been saying since forever that it won't happen.

If not, it would be interesting to see how the framework goes especially now that it's somewhat trying to mirror Laravel's structure, but without its features that previous CI developers favored with.

I assume this is your personal opinion on whatever it is that you're talking about here, as I don't understand what you mean.