OK, I'm not on the side of "CF is DEAD", because we know it is not with CF9 coming. However, I'm very interested to see how people in the industry thinks about ColdFusion in general. Therefore, I posted the question "Why is ColdFusion so unpopular?" to stackover.com
Someone tried to change the title to "Why is ColdFusion not as popular as ASP, ASP.NET or PHP?", but I revert back to "Why is ColdFusion so unpopular?" for a broader discussion, rather than just language & feature comparison.
However, there were only 10 Answers because someone thought it is "subjective and argumentative" and closed the thread.
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Very interesting comments and it looks as though you actually got some real responses for once.
ReplyDeleteSeems like the cost and change in syntax paradigm are the big deals.
It also seems that the responders that had experience in it had not seen the range or ease of the built-in functionality compared to the tools they are used to. I for one cry anytime I'm forced to work with JDBC directly as cfquery is so simplistic and capable.
Maybe a lesson from this is that CF is not getting enough good impression points to warrant further exploration of its capabilities. On the other hand, the tag syntax is quite the slap in the face to some developers, but many seem to find it reasonable given experiencing it's pros and cons over time.
Well with rumors that cfscript will be fully supported in CF9 I wonder if we will see people pickup Coldfusion as the syntax much similar to c,c++, php,AS ect. I know I have had comments saying how they hate the tags but they have never even given Coldfusion a chance and wont based on that alone.
ReplyDeleteNot to mention the OS versions of OpenBD and Railo (free) once you go CFML you don't want to go back.
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