The future of Codeigniter

@ivantcholakov

Couldn't have said it better myself. The "small footprint" and "fast" that CI3 sold itself on has become more and more of just a marketing pitch than anything else. It costs less to spin up new EC2 instances that are getting faster and faster by the month than to spend hours and hours reinventing the wheel that has already been battle-tested in frameworks like Symfony and Laravel.

And at the end of the day, once I've added auth, orm, billing, 3rd party apis, and countless other plugins, it's no longer the framework that is holding you back. 

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