We used it at my last job a few years ago, and it was pretty easy to get people who aren't normally even coders to build a ColdFusion page. We used it for the u

We used it at my last job a few years ago, and it was pretty easy to get people who aren't normally even coders to build a ColdFusion page. We used it for the university's intranet and it was very good for making simple internal CRUD web apps that various members of our team could understand / troubleshoot / maintain easily. One of the defining features of ColdFusion is the tag-based syntax. You can have a single "web page" file in, say, "my-widgets.cfm". It can then have a mix of HTML and CFML tags that lay out the page, which would include an SQL query of a database and the HTML being output for each row. Other languages have templating, but this is more like a core feature of the language. By default, it's also got that PHP style of "just upload a file and open it in your web browser" that makes it simple. So if someone else wanted to make a page like my "my-widgets.cfm", they could simply duplicate it with a different name and make changes until it's ready to go. This lets you turn around internal web apps very quickly that, you know, does in realtime what an administrative assistant does in a week with an Excel spreadsheet. I use Python now and I certainly recommend it, but it wouldn't be as simple to jump right into as a barely-techie. Same with modern PHP (on something like Laravel). Earlier PHP would be similar, but ColdFusion's <cfquery> functionality is so easy to use and so critical that it's really a big deal. You don't need to know much ColdFusion to run a query and output the results (safely even) in HTML.