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I maintain a large codebase for an application that has been around for longer than a decade in CF. I love it. I have also, over the years, been brought in to
by bluetwo 10y ago
I maintain a large codebase for an application that has been around for longer than a decade in CF. I love it.
I have also, over the years, been brought in to rescue applications that have grown into giant messes. So I'm not saying what you are saying is incorrect, but it has less to do with the language, in my opinion, and more to do with what happens to large applications that get written by multiple teams of people over the years, as they adapt to changing customer demands.
And, sometimes, by managers who don't understand code, the importance of documentation, or how to communicate and plan for business issues.
Build an app in any web application today and try to maintain it for a decade.
- lostapathy 10y agoI agree, it's not really the language's fault. I'm involved with more than one application that's over a decade old, so I understand what happens. My point is that a lot of the things still running around in ColdFusion aren't there because they're healthy, they're around because they are too sick to do anything else with. I've got too much personal experience with applications used by the government that I sure would not trust with my personal data! You know, things written before password hashing was standard practice ... and that still don't hash passwords.