What do you think of the future of Coldfusion?

While my job title isn't "CF Developer", it's most of what I do.  CF is very popular in the federal government, and one of the contractors in my agency is always looking for CF developers - they're not easy to find!

And I agree with Aegis.  When you go out to find hosting for your personal website, they all offer PHP.  A vast majority of free scripts are in PHP, so that platform is pretty much self-sustaining.  You have to go looking for a CF host, which means you've probably already learned CF for some other reason.

I started off writing PHP back in the late 90's, and didn't take my first CF class until around 2006 I think.  But by 2008 I was already way more proficient at CF than I ever was at PHP.  While I'm not nearly as skilled as people like Tim, I can get pretty much anything done that is called for at work.

I think if my office ever switched to PHP, I'd go back to pushing papers and let the coders do the PHP stuff.

ColdFusion isn't as prominent as PHP and other established languages, but I've seen plenty of CF jobs.  I've shown many other-than-CF developers the code CF writes and how easy, powerful and rapidly I can perform common functions, and though they never admit it, you can see they are impressed.

ColdFusion is the epitome of simplicity and power.  It's easy to pickup and more than capable to do the job.  I think a big reason why CF isn't as propagated is simply because ColdFusion costs money to have a server for hosts, vs. the free nature of PHP.

Oh, and I have a fulltime ColdFusion job.

Quit Trolling.

My company has almost 80 full time ColdFusion developers. So yes people do and no it didn't.