CakePHP is anything but dead. Here's the keynote from CakeFest this year with some stats:
http://www.slideshare.net/JamesWatts4/cakephp-community-keynote-38283514 You can also listen to it here, on a podcast episode we recorded after the event: http://podcast.cakephp.org/listen/episode-3-cakefest-recap Like Jose said, learning is good, but you can count on CakePHP staying strong for a very long time, with 3.0 being a significant and strong move in the right direction. I would also suggest targeting more active support bases, like the IRC channel and Stack Overflow, as Jose also suggested. On Monday, November 10, 2014 10:28:38 AM UTC+1, Lucky1968 wrote: > > I posted a few questions lately but I don't get any answers at all here. > Only 1 reply (and that wasn't even an answer to my problem) to 5 questions > or so. > > Therefor I'm asking myself if the group of CakePHP developers is bleeding > to death and if that's so, why? > Or is there a more intensively used group somewhere? > > Are we waiting too long for the new CakePHP 3 version? > And, like I'm reading at several places, is there a much better and more > advanced alternative (Laravel) which is even more advanced than our > upcoming CakePHP 3 will be? > > I'm a CakePHP enthusiast for many years now but I'm not an 'expert' > programmer and when I started With CakePHP back then (1.3.x) there was a > large community and questions were answered very quickly but that seems to > have stopped for a while right now. > And I can also see that in this group a while ago we got like 10 updates a > day while now we only have around 3 updates a day. > > I don't want to change to an alternative framework at all but as I have > read some comments on the upcoming CakePHP 3 and the fact that I like my > code to be as much 'Cake' as possible it will require a (for me) rather > steep learning curve and reading 'The Book' from scratch to take advantage > of all new techniques. > With this in mind I'm doubting if it wouldn't be more appropriate to start > learning an alternative (more advanced?) framework right away? > > Thanks in advance for your comments > -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
