Although I wish BCIT all the best I'd wish it would have been picked up by WordPress instead. WordPress is great but it's really showing its age and it could do with a major overhaul. If WordPress would have adopted CI, bring it up to scratch with modern PHP development (Composer, PSR, component oriented, etc.) and build the next generation of WordPress (5.0?) on top of that, I think would have been beneficial to the greater community.
Edit: However, that might conflict with whatever Ellis labs is doing these days..
That being said, I suppose at the end of the day, Codeigniter is still blazing fast and so incredibly easy to introduce to a newer developer. Maybe it will always have a place, and if so, I wish BCIT best of luck!
Symfony2 and others are now so much more ahead of CI. Composer and PSR-x standards make developing in PHP much more of a programming rather than scripting experience, and CI still feels closer to the latter.
On the other hand, I learnt much from CI when I first started MVC and OO development, so best of luck to BCIT.
Started to move over to Laravel now since that's where 'all the cool kids' are heading.
(My only real gripe has been the lack of a good Model base class, which led me to roll my own: https://github.com/lukifer/TheMissingModel)
Best of luck to BCIT, I hope they keep building on CI's core strengths and resist the temptation to make radical changes.
