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Cheers. It was interesting to learn what JJA has been up to since coming up with the great (at the time) Cold Fusion back in the mid 90s. [I'm really showing my
by sundvor 10y ago
Cheers. It was interesting to learn what JJA has been up to since coming up with the great (at the time) Cold Fusion back in the mid 90s. [I'm really showing my age here. ;)]
- neovive 10y agoYes. ColdFusion was groundbreaking back in 1996 and I have fond memories of coding "HTML-by-hand" in Homesite. I even worked at an organization that used JRun application server for quite a few years after the Macromedia/Adobe purchase.
- sundvor 10y agoYes, and CF lived for ages and ages too. It was really quite brilliant. I hung on to ColdFusion (as it later came to be known) for far too long which has probably hurt my career as I ought to have been gaining experience in other languages. Having said that, picking up PHP from ColdFusion was dead easy ... but have now made the switch to C# / .netCore in the last year and finding that to be a whole new world. SOLID, DDD, TDD, etc. It's never too late. :-)
- neovive 10y agoLooking at CFML specifically [1], it's surprisingly similar to the components and directives seen in modern JS frameworks like Angular, React and Vue. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColdFusion_Markup_Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColdFusion_Markup_Language
- nickpsecurity 10y agoYes, it was like a more polished and concise PHP. Plus with a cooler name. :) Comparison for the curious below although it's been too long for me to tell how accurate it is other than the ColdFusion was pretty concise for database stuff: http://paulalkema.com/post.cfm/php-vs-coldfusion http://paulalkema.com/post.cfm/php-vs-coldfusion It could be considered in a way like a 4GL for apps that combined web and database. So, really good at what it's specifically designed for then starting to become painful when use case isn't true for that.