I built the first part of my career in ColdFusion, ran the local CF user group, and even spoke at a number of CF conferences. I even still run a production app

I built the first part of my career in ColdFusion, ran the local CF user group, and even spoke at a number of CF conferences. I even still run a production app and occasionally do consulting in CF. CF, while still a commercial product, also has a well-maintained open-source version called Lucee [1]. There's a modern MVC framework called ColdBox [2], and the parent company also produces a number of amazing ecosystem tools like CommandBox [3] (a first-class tool for standing up local dev servers, dependency management, etc) and a modern testing framework [4]. I mostly focus on Rails these days, but there's a number of things I miss from the CFML world. (web GUI for configuration, in-memory ability to query recordsets with SQL, etc). I can't help but chuckle at things like server-rendered components which we were doing in the 90s with CF custom tags. 1. https://www.lucee.org/ https://www.lucee.org/ 2. https://coldbox.org/ https://coldbox.org/ 3. https://www.ortussolutions.com/products/commandbox https://www.ortussolutions.com/products/commandbox 4. https://www.ortussolutions.com/products/testbox https://www.ortussolutions.com/products/testbox