[eluser]Narf[/eluser]
[quote author="term25" date="1352318718"]CI is like Internet Explorer 6 and you guys are only making things worse, when you are supporting this rusty project.[/quote]
Another boldly false statement.
You can't compare CI to a web browser and especially not to IE6. Internet Explorer 6 is our nightmare for 2 reasons:
1. Microsoft doesn't care about standards and that has affected their product.
2. You are, or until recently were forced to support it, because of its enormous user base.
None of these statements are true for CodeIgniter. 1) because it has been a standard for so long and 2) because it's you that have to move away from it, if you wish. It's not like your website's visitors will demand that you use CI.
On the contrary, CodeIgniter will help you when your project needs to be hosted on a server where you don't have PHP 5.3. No other framework can give you that and if you want to compare it to anything - it has to be jQuery, helping you in your battles with IE6.
At this point, something's becoming very obvious - you're either trolling, running an ad campaign for Laravel or running an anti-campaign against CodeIgniter. None of the three is a noble thing to do - first and last speak for themselves and I really doubt that anybody representing Laravel has asked you to do the second. I can assure you - this is the worst way of advertising a product and it is doing them no favor.
One thing you did got right though - a framework is a tool, and you should use the one tool that best fits the job. If that tool happens to not be CodeIgniter for you - that's fine, nobody will get upset about it and note that nobody says that Laravel is bad.
All that has been asked from anybody here on the forums is to be respectful to others and so far (unless somebody started a real flame war while I'm writing this) everybody has been respectful to you. Why you refuse to do so and stop this hate fest is beyond me - please do.
For the rest of you, community members - don't feed him the attention that he seeks. At least I'm trying to make a point.