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The proprietary nature of it has really stunted it in the long term. Students aren't learning it in school because there's plenty of free (in all senses of the
by CydeWeys 7y ago
The proprietary nature of it has really stunted it in the long term. Students aren't learning it in school because there's plenty of free (in all senses of the word) alternatives available, such as Python or NodeJS.
I think the overall marketplace has shown pretty clearly that proprietary languages are doomed to insignificant market share at best, outright failure at worst. The writing was really on the wall when Microsoft opened up all of .NET.
- bdcravens 7y agoCFML has had open source implementations for over 10 years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColdFusion_Markup_Language#History https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColdFusion_Markup_Language#H...
- CydeWeys 7y agoToo late. It was already dying a decade ago. Two decades ago might have made a difference.
- bdcravens 7y agoWasn't speaking to that - only whether or not there are open source options. Being open source in and off itself seems to be a prerequisite, but it's more a matter of building a strong ecosystem (for example, imagine Ruby without Rails or node without npm), which never really materialized for CFML.