There's way too much name calling and insulting going on around here. We're all super brave internet users who know no shame when it comes to hurling semi-annonymous insults at each other. And it's getting a little tiresome.
One thing we CAN all agree on is that CF is pretty great. And that it's come a long way over the years, despite the fact many see it as still a language for 5 taggers noobs. So my question to all of you... would you do it again if you could go back? For me, sadly, I think the answer is no. I started with Allaire Cold Fusion v4. It was my first foray into programming and I was SOOOOO excited the first time I did a CRUD operation. Over the past 10 or so years I've done some pretty fantastic things with CF. I've enabled a great number of companies to both innovate and cut costs and do it all for less investment in development. I've literally revolutionised the way some of my clients do business, saving some of them over 200k/year. I know when a client ask me "can we do X" the answer is always "Yes. I just don't know how yet." However these days as I consider moving on to a different job I find it harder and harder to find suitable employment. It seems so few companies (in my area anyway) use CF. And to take a job as a junior developer in another language would be such a massive step backwards. I can hardly command a six figure salary with just a few years php experience, despite my 10+ years as a fairly hard core CF'er, project manager, development director. And in the industry the only people that give cf any respect seem to be fellow CF'ers. More and more I feel like a guy who invested most of my professional life into a language that's been on the cusp of earning industry respect and saturation for 10 years. When Macromedia bought it I thought "great, NOW we're sure to get the props we deserve." Nope. Then Adobe bought it and I was like "NOW we're REALLY sure to get the props we deserve." Nope. It's like CF is in a constant state of adolescence, despite the all programming pubes it has grown over the years. What do you all think? P.S. And no, this isn't a CF is dead thread. It's its better looking cousin. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:320300 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
