On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Matthew Woodward <[email protected]>wrote:
> But, as I said, I'm extremely torn on this issue. I totally get building > something to promote your language. The trick is it has to stand up against > stuff that has a lot more development hours and adoption > Yeah, and that's the root of the problem. FOSS in CFML is relatively new and has mostly been solo developers rather than teams. So we're years behind the competition, maybe a decade behind. There's arguments on both sides: spend the time to build a better mousetrap (to compete with the industry standard apps) or try to find a niche that has no clear FOSS leader and fill that gap with a CFML solution. Both are hard: the former because the bar is set so high, the latter because almost every app has already been built. Or we could just ignore the whole competition issue and just promote CFML as the best RAD solution for the web for custom apps. That's actually the approach I take when talking about CFML with non-CFML people. Whilst I agree that killer FOSS apps are important, I'm just not sure we can actually nail that particular beast... -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
