A couple thoughts...
Don't you think Neo/Java will enable CF to pull in other developers and let
those of us that know Java expand what we would typically do with CF? Also,
don't you think that Allaire now being Macromedia will enhance it's staying
power and entice more developers to learn CF?
At our company we use CF because it is fast to develop with. No other
language we've found has been so fast AND powerful.
Derek Hamilton
Systems Developer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Grossberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 12:27 PM
Subject: Is CF still relevant?
> Now, before you dismiss this as a troll, please let me elaborate. This
isn't
> so much an instigation or a whine as it is a call for us to take a step
back
> and reevalutate things periodically.
>
> Over the course of my career as a web programmer/developer, I have worked
> with a variety of sever-side languages and technologies: ColdFusion, ASP,
> JSP, PHP, Perl and Python. I like some more than others, but I'm not an
> evangelist for any; they each have their uses. And I recognize some of
CF's
> strengths: easy to learn for people who know only tag-based HTML or don't
> have significant programming experience; built-in admin tool; specialized
> editor; comes with pre-built tags and web-based administrator. There are
> also major flaws: broken/sketchy tags; no XML parsing; not OOP; relatively
> small community; etc.
>
> Right now, I work at a web development firm that is primarily "a CF house"
> (besides me). Our more senior programmers are looking at honing their CF
> skills, while our less experienced webmasters are trying to learn
> ColdFusion. But, I can't help but wonder whether they are wasting their
> time. Would they be better off spending their time learning ASP, Java or
> another non-CF solution? Why or why not?
>
> And how would we tell if and when it was time to give up CF and try
> something else, as all but the most stubborn experts in also-ran languages
> (Ada, SmallTalk), applications (Netscape, Lotus Notes) and Operating
Systems
> (Amiga) have resignedly done?
>
> Lastly, why do *you* still use CF? Is it because it's what you're best at,
> and you don't want to try something new (where, temporarily, you'd be a
> novice again)? Is it because your ccompany's legacy code is all in CF? Is
it
> because you genuinely think that ColdFusion is, generally speaking, the
best
> solution for web application development in 2001?
>
> Joe
>
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