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Anonymous

Question

Is coldfusion dead?

Forum|Forum|15 years ago
September 17, 2010
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Judging by the lack of participation in this forum, I'm guessing coldfusion really is dead....Adobe doesn't seem to care a whole lot about it either judging by the number of unanswered posts!

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Anonymous

This discussion happened 9 years ago. Still, this community is live and getting new versions of ColdFusion from Adobe.

https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/products/coldfusion/pdfs/Roadmap_for_Adobe_ColdFusion.pdf

https://teratech.com/cf-alive/

https://www.itlandmark.com/blog/coldfusion-is-not-dead-it-is-alive/

These can tell that ColdFusion is not dead.

WolfShade

Legend

You resurrected a nine year old thread for this? Please, people, just let this thread die with dignity.

V/r,

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Oaklander

Participating Frequently

ColdFusion is very strong and alive. I also use PHP, J2EE and

.Net and can honestly say ColdFusion is the easiest and most efficient for most of my development.

Long live ColdFusion as the the best Server side in the web development world!

BKBK

Community Expert

That's the spirit Oaklander! ColdFusion could borrow this line from Mark Twain, "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated". You can't ignore all the Adobe hype on ColdFusion.

AdamPresley

Participating Frequently

But now that this old horse has been beat to near extinction where is the original poster? Yes, brambilaa got a brow-beating for his question, but one must recognize that as an outsider, a forum with mild participation (in comparison to some anyway) would give the impression that no one uses, nor cares for, ColdFusion any longer. Understand that this statement is far from truth, and the ColdFusion community is actually quite busy and helpful.

brambilaa I encourage you to post back here. What do you think about all this? Have you explored other avenues of communication in the ColdFusion community? Are you interested in learning more? Please reply here, and feel free to hit me up on Twitter (@adampresley), or anyone else here. I'd hate for the label of "troll" to hold truth.

And as always, happy coding!

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Steve Sommers

Legend

But I would counter that with: Anyone who thinks this forum has mild participation does not frequent many forums on other topics and industries. No, this forum cannot compete with various social sites for sheer volume and questions usually don't get sub-sixty second resplies, but the quality of the responses are usually much higher. I frequest various point-of-sale and industry specific forums like restaurants. In many of these it is common for a question to go unanswered for days or weeks. What makes things worse, on many of these sites you'll get a response like "I can help, give me a call [and I'll sell you my crap]." (I added the last part) Should I consider these industries as on their way to extinction?

Anyway, I try to respond when I can on topics I know but I have work to do. I don't have time to be a forum butterfly and I'm sure other participants on this forum have similar constraints. I don't blame this on a technology on its way to extinction. When something is free, many times you get what you pay for. If you have an urgent problem that requires an immediate answer, Adobe and others offer pay-per-call support -- just like M$ if .Net is your preference -- I'm not sure if PHP offers the same (I'm sure somebody does, but that's not my area of expertise).

I think earlier in this thread I responded with some of the reasons questions go unanswered (if it was not this thread, a similar one). I still believe those are the biggest factors -- too vague a question or too complex an answer (like how do I write a shopping cart in CF?). Anyway, I hope this helps.

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djkhalif

Inspiring

Of course those that cannot grasp the language wish to declare its' death, when they are unable to give life to their career using it.

djkhalif

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Anonymous

ColdFusion was official pronounced dead a while back and then version 3 came out.What version are we on now??

tclaremont

Inspiring

The perceived lack of participation might have something to do with the fact that CF is so intuitive (for most people) that any amount of initiative on the developer's part finds an answer in very short order.

BTW: This is a positive reflection on CF, not a negative one.

my PC Techs

Participant

Not dead, but certainly very, very far removed from maintstream, which is both good and bad. Good, because ColdFusion developers are easily able to earn 50% more than other language developers due to the difficulty in finding one. Bad, because eventually the language will die off.

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Samantha_Dash

Participating Frequently

I have to agree with the original poster that the quality of this board really sucks.

It's interesting how everyone tries to attack the original poster. The poor guy, instead why don't you do some self-reflection and see how can you approve the aboard?

Hello?

Anyway...read CF visionaries like Ben Nadel, Ray Camden, etc

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Adam Cameron.

Inspiring

Well, Bluespoon, you've made a total of nine posts here, so it's perhaps a bit early in your membership here to be complaining about how useful people find these forums.

I think these forums are pretty good for people asking questions at the simple end of the scale, as they get their questions answered quickly and reasonably accurately. However anything beyond mid-level sort of stuff struggles to get answers here. givent hat, most of the questions here are pretty basic, so I think quite a high percentage of people looking for help actually get it.

As an exercise, if you review the posts made over the last week or so, what percentage haven't had an answer or at least a response with an offer to help?

As for people being abrupt towards people posting the perennial "CF is dead"... it all gets a bit old and repetitive after a while. This sort of thing pops up every few months (and it unfolds exactly the same way this thread has). The people making the assertion just sound ignorant and, as someone pointed out, just after a bit of a sh!t-stir. Their posts have little to do with actually engendering discussion about the potential longevity of CF, they're just sitting @ home (possibly their mother's home) in their piss-stained underpants slobbering with glee at the chance to interact with people the only way they can: trying to wind them up. And what sort of fvckwit does that? The only thing they deserve is derision.

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Adam