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Not as popular as it used to be, but definitely still around. The open source version (Lucee, formerly Railo) sees a lot of use as well. As for Adobe, I think i

Not as popular as it used to be, but definitely still around. The open source version (Lucee, formerly Railo) sees a lot of use as well. As for Adobe, I think it's treated as a step-child they acquired along with the rest of the Macromedia IP. I've actually been to trade shows where one part of the company was there and they didn't even know what ColdFusion is.

noduerme 4y ago
I would so love if Adobe would just spin off Macromedia again. I remember working on Flex frontends with CF engineers in the early 2000s and ...I mean, there is no reason that couldn't be updated to be a killer framework now if it worked with modern stacks. Not surprising, but sad that Adobe flacks don't even know what it is. The world would be a lot more interesting if Macromedia was still a going concern, maybe aligned with Unity or some other ecosystem for game production.
- throwntoday 4y ago
  >maybe aligned with Unity or some other ecosystem for game production I think I recall Flash did try to offer some type of iPhone app development features towards the end of it's useful life but Jobs effectively sentenced Flash to death so most everyone had jumped ship by this point.
  - noduerme 4y ago
    We built some games in Flash/Air that compiled to native iOS apps... they basically bundle the whole flash player into the game. It was and still is a working way to make an iOS game, it's just that Adobe no longer supports the plugin version... and you can't really trust them to support anything else going forward, so most devs moved to other languages and stacks like Unity.
tabtab 4y ago
ColdFusion is quite useful for internal (intranet) data search and reporting apps/pages that don't need lots of JavaScript eye-candy nor layer-happy frameworks. It makes it easy to stick hyperlinks in HTML data tables so managers can click to drill up, down, and all around to study data from different dimensions. There's also an open-source implementation or two, although I found the charting tools of the commercial version to be more mature. I'd much rather use ColdFusion than Microsoft Power BI, if I had to choose. (MS-BI is probably a better fit for non-programmers.)

noduerme 4y ago

I would so love if Adobe would just spin off Macromedia again. I remember working on Flex frontends with CF engineers in the early 2000s and ...I mean, there is no reason that couldn't be updated to be a killer framework now if it worked with modern stacks. Not surprising, but sad that Adobe flacks don't even know what it is. The world would be a lot more interesting if Macromedia was still a going concern, maybe aligned with Unity or some other ecosystem for game production.

throwntoday 4y ago
>maybe aligned with Unity or some other ecosystem for game production I think I recall Flash did try to offer some type of iPhone app development features towards the end of it's useful life but Jobs effectively sentenced Flash to death so most everyone had jumped ship by this point.
- noduerme 4y ago
  We built some games in Flash/Air that compiled to native iOS apps... they basically bundle the whole flash player into the game. It was and still is a working way to make an iOS game, it's just that Adobe no longer supports the plugin version... and you can't really trust them to support anything else going forward, so most devs moved to other languages and stacks like Unity.

tabtab 4y ago

ColdFusion is quite useful for internal (intranet) data search and reporting apps/pages that don't need lots of JavaScript eye-candy nor layer-happy frameworks. It makes it easy to stick hyperlinks in HTML data tables so managers can click to drill up, down, and all around to study data from different dimensions. There's also an open-source implementation or two, although I found the charting tools of the commercial version to be more mature. I'd much rather use ColdFusion than Microsoft Power BI, if I had to choose. (MS-BI is probably a better fit for non-programmers.)