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Kohana is pretty nice IMHO

If only they could get the docs back up to par! Things were sort of OK for 2.x, even if you needed some background in CodeIgniter to really understand everything, but half of the wiki for 3.x is empty pages with TODO's.

I still recommend that people new to Kohana start with 2.x because a framework is worth a lot less without quality documentation, when you have to go read the code all the time. Not that you shouldn't do that eventually, there's a lot of good code in there to learn from!

Kohana is wonderful because it's simple: I never had any problem reading the code if I wanted to know what something did.

That's good but it also makes it annoying to work with it. I prefer having good docs which takes me 30 seconds to scan and find what I am looking for than having the better code in the world so I go with CodeIgniter instead (the new version is pretty good).

Because of the lack of documentation (v3), i begin to read source code to understand... At the and i found myself while writing my own framework :)

Really, Kohana needs more documentation....

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