On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Alan Williamson (aw2.0 cloud experts) <[email protected]> wrote: > It seldom ranks in the same area as PHP.
Is this perhaps regional? When I've spoken to web agencies here in the US, they are view CFML as very similar to PHP (except they lament how hard it is to find good CFers and how much more they get paid than PHP scripters). > I know others are finding it hard to recruit for CFML developers too It's certainly hard to find _good_ CFML developers. I think a lot of companies are now requiring that their web developers - in any language - have some level of software engineering experience and at least a passing familiarity with modern software development techniques (OOP, version control, bug tracking, testing, deployment). That set of filters unfortunately eliminates a lot of the current "778,000" CFML developers (although things are improving slowly). Yes, it also eliminates a lot of PHP scripters but there's a pool of six or seven million of them to draw from so finding vaguely competent ones is easier just by virtue of the numbers. And companies seem unwilling to hire a competent developer (in language X) and train them up in CFML, even tho' most vaguely competent developers can pick up CFML very, very quickly (that is, after all, part of its strength). > I want CFML to grow. We need CFML to grow. Recruitment is one of the key > market indicators as to the success of a language, and CFML isn't even in > the Top 50 languages! > > http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html > (updated Feb 2011) LOL! That's a useless measure. The Scala community are currently debating the merits of TIOBE because Scala has dropped out of the top 50 after being quite a bit higher last year and they know the language definitely is growing pretty quickly. > It will be interesting for example to see how many people will be at > OpenCFSummit that are new to the language say in the last 6months. Very few, I'd expect. I think this first summit will appeal to more experienced developers (but I'd be happy to be proved wrong). As the summit continues and grows in future years, I'd expect to see more fresh faces in the community attending. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood -- tag/function ref: http://www.openbluedragon.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en Get to Texas in Feb for OpenCFSummit http://www.opencfsummit.org/
