I used ColdFusion for many years. I think it was a great choice back in the early 2000s. It is basically a JVM language where you can write cf at a high level a

I used ColdFusion for many years. I think it was a great choice back in the early 2000s. It is basically a JVM language where you can write cf at a high level and use straight Java in the same code base if you need to do anything more low level (like high almost never happened, but was useful on the rare occasions it arose). But one of the main reasons it died off is license costs. The last time I was involved in license negotiations with Adobe, they wanted to charge us $100k per cpu core per server per year. These were cloud servers with many cpu cores and there were dev, qa and prod servers. The licensing cost for a single years was astronomical. There are free versions of ColdFusion (Lucee is the best), but they are far too late for ColdFusion to make any sort of comeback. The main thing I miss from ColdFusion is cfquery and cfquerypararms and query of queries. I’ve never seen any other language that makes database interactions as easy as those do. Every other language is such an enormous pain to do sql queries, when compared to cfquery.