This really seems to happen in most language communities. I'm on a local Ruby mailing list and there has been a freak out about how MRI is not doing enough for Ruby as a language and how performance blows and ideas like threading aren't being taken seriously.
Here's a bit from an email just yesterday: "I don't think Things are Changing is the right thought process here, though perhaps I intone that. I think Things Have Already Changed, and We Are Struggling To Catch Up because the MRI team is asleep at the wheel, and It's Going To Get Worse Unless We Do Something About It. In the interim, I have to sit in conference rooms of other companies and defend Ruby in front of VPs of Engineering that think (not without some occasionally accurate evidence) it's a joke language. I'm trying really hard (with what little free time I have) to try and improve that mentality." Sound familiar? CF has a lot of challenges. The most brutal is that people don't seem to be picking it up as a primary or secondary language as much as they used to. That will have consequences. On the other hand, languages like Ruby have their own whole set of issues. It's got a lot of younger, active, developers but is seen by a lot of people as fine for small projects but not suitable for large ones or ones with performance needs. Go over into .Net and you have a whole 'nother set of challenges. It's a brutal world out there in technology land. If you want to survive, you've got to be smart and nimble. Cheers, Judah On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Justin Scott <[email protected]>wrote: > > > I know it's an older post, but did anyone see this blog entry by John > Mason: > > > http://www.codfusion.com/blog/post.cfm/coldfusion-10-the-last-edition-from-adobe > > I am rather astonished to see an article like this from a leader in the > CF Community. > > I'm not sure why there is so much FUD in the ColdFusion community over > the last year or so. As others have pointed out Adobe has a roadmap > for at least two more versions over the next couple of years. There > is a push to revitalize user groups. Railo is thriving and has > committed to a decade of future development. There is a HUGE install > base with applications that will need to be supported for many, many > years to come. Yes, there are other technologies that are "sexier" > than ColdFusion. Yes, there are situations where ColdFusion isn't the > best, fastest, or cheapest solution. Yes, there are a number of > things Adobe could/should be doing to make adopting ColdFusion > cheaper/easier/better. Having said that, ColdFusion still has a long > and glorious career ahead of it so I'm not at all worried about its > future. Even if there were more nails in the coffin than not, I still > wouldn't be worried. Why? Because I'm primarily a WEB developer, not > a ColdFusion developer. It's my preferred tool, but if all of CF > disappeared tomorrow I'd still be able to do my job. There will still > be Windows and Linux servers to manage. There will still be a dozen > other languages and platforms to work with. There will still be > databases to architect. There will still be businesses that need > applications developed on top of those platforms. Am I worried about > ColdFusion's future? Not particularly. Am I worried about web > development's future? Not at all. So please... can we stop all the > FUD around ColdFusion and its greatly exaggerated demise? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:360009 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
