The future of Codeigniter

As for CI 3.0. If it truly has no support anymore, I'd love for the heads of CI to let us know. I have a few legacy projects on it and will need to migrate off if that is the case.

Simply check the reported issues on github and the CVS issues (https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability...niter.html) for any security problem every week or so and patch it yourself if needed and you can use it as long as you whish. There is no need to migrate off...

For small projects yes, but when you have large clients that have SLAs and contractual requirements to have certain standards of support for projects, it's not really an option.

At least in most of the enterprise software we write, every framework and package that is imported is thoroughly scrutinized by a separate dev team and security team. Usage and support is a huge part of that.

That's the huge advantage of Laravel or Symfony. We can fly our devs or project managers to their conferences and get direct q/a with the thousands of developers that are working on the platforms. There are also weekly security updates that makes non-techie CFOs and stuff feel a lot better about writing large checks.

Like I said in my first post. CI is really going down the road of a great framework for small or legacy projects, but at least from my experience, I have no chance of selling CI 3.0 or CI 4.0 for new projects. Only reason I still have 3.0 projects is because they're so large it's hard to migrate.

Codeigniter is simply one of the tools you need to learn to be a successful developer. Always add more tools to your coding arsenal!