Great points Lyndon.
CF's association with Dreamweaver gives the public perception that
it is "a language for web designers, not programmers")
This may change very quickly since MM just announced they're getting
behind the Eclipse project for Flex development. Wouldn't be a
stretch at all for them to throw some weight behind the already-nice
CFEclipse plugin, and then maybe we'll start seeing some of the
better developer features people have been asking for.
Most larger companies are either doing .NET or J2EE (CF is often
not considered real J2EE by the Java community, eventhough it is)
This is a very salient point. As much as I love CF, from a personal
standpoint we can't stick our heads in the sand and ignore this other
stuff. Choose Java or .NET (or both) and learn it. It will only
help you as a developer overall and will make you more marketable.
That being said, I still push CF on every project I can just because
of the advantages it offers IMO, and if people are concerned about
the future, the potential for deployment on J2EE or .NET is a nice
card to play. Get it done more quickly now, spend a little money in
the future if necessary and redeploy as opposed to redeveloping.
Platform dependent (yeah, yeah MONO)
MONO makes strides now and then but it will always be behind the
"real deal" so many folks I've talked to see it as a curiosity rather
than an actual option for production use.
I'm working with devil
Heh--funny and true. ;-) I'm pretty vocally anti-MS as most of you
know so this is a big one for me. I love the idea of being able to
code in multiple languages that can all be run on the same platform
(.NET), but from an emotional standpoint I just don't think I'll ever
be able to go full-on .NET. Too much of an open-source hippie for
that I suppose. If I had to choose something other than CF I'd
probably go back to Java since I've done that full-time before.
Interesting thing about the multiple language/single platform thing
is that there's a push towards this in the Java community as well:
http://mattwoodward.com/blog/index.cfm?commentID=141
If it gets to the point where Java is like .NET in that "all
languages are created equal" then that could be a huge boon for CF.
That would address the other concern Lyndon brought up with CF being
Java but not really being seen as such by the Java crowd.
Matt
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