I'd still be tempted by CF and probably try to pick it up. But right now, I'd say I'd either pick Ruby or Scala. Scala is intriguing and powerful. Ruby is a pleasure to read.
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Medic <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:320301 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
