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There were custom tags since 1997 (v3) and functions since 2001 (v5). https://cfdocs.org/coldfusion-versions https://cfdocs.org/coldfusion-versions CF is inte
by esprehn 2y ago
There were custom tags since 1997 (v3) and functions since 2001 (v5).
https://cfdocs.org/coldfusion-versions https://cfdocs.org/coldfusion-versions
CF is interesting because it started as basically server side includes with some extra features to connect to a database. It was meant to be very approachable and not general purpose. Like a distant ancestor to Jupyter and Observable.
That approachability made for some big messes, but it also spawned a huge community of software developers who might not have gotten into it otherwise.
- aidos 2y agoTo be honest I don’t quite recall the history anymore and no doubt the place we were at was late with adoption. My first day they said “congratulations, you’ve just inherited 3 million lines of confusion”