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I think Adobe Illustrator would be an excellent IDE. I think Adobe gave up on the coding business too soon after ColdFusion didn't work out so well.

• combatentropy 8y ago
  Yes, I think your programs would be smaller because they are saved as vectors instead of rasters.
• james-skemp 8y ago
  Having developed in ColdFusion approximately a decade ago, before the product we used (and I as a developer) switched to .NET, I did a quick search. It looks like it's still being developed at least. All this time later I still liked how easy it was to cfdump anything (at least there's LINQPad supports it for .NET) and how nice FusionReactor was for troubleshooting issues. We used a bit of closed-source software but FR could be configured to sit between all db calls, which helped us point out some rather inefficient queries the CMS was doing. Every now and again I see a .cfm in the URL and wouldn't mind working (briefly) with the language again. EDIT: Still looking around at ColdFusion, I think really the price is what resulted in it's lack of adoption. Typical Adobe pricing that's focused on enterprise usage.
  • migueltarga 8y ago
    Check this out: https://github.com/lucee/Lucee https://github.com/lucee/Lucee
• tonyedgecombe 8y ago
  You could argue it was originally created as an IDE for PostScript.