>To give a littler perspective, Irvin, I'm hiring developers currently >in one language and working on learning a couple others myself. > [...] >Cheers, >Judah > >On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Irvin Gomez <[email protected]> wrote: >>
The reason Coldfusion is dying a slow death has nothing to do with Coldfusion itself or its capabilities (I'm a convert, remember). Coldfusion is fine. The problem is one of perception: the overwhelming majority of people entering the programming arena will - rightfully so - go with .Net or PHP instead of Coldfusion. For a few very simple reasons: 1. They are more popular, especially PHP. 2. Because they are more popular, the person feels that employment/income opportunities will be better with those languages. 3. The resources available to beginners are more numerous or simply visible (PHP). 4. For whatever the reason, Coldfusion is perceived as something of a 'has-been' language. And, yes, you would not hire guys without great expertise. But that's not what pays the bills at Adobe. It is the great 'unwashed masses' who will ultimately dictate whether Coldfusion thrives or just continues on life support until the current generation of diehards dies out. It is a reality. 99% of the guys doing PHP are just WordPress hackers - but who cares? I wish Coldfusion - as good as it is - could say the same. That's my perspective. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:348601 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
