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Yes. 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 a
by neovive 10y ago
Yes. 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.