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At this point I'd skip Lucee which has most of the legacy baggage Adobe ColdFusion does and look at BoxLang. https://boxlang.io/ https://boxlang.io/ "A modern

• thrownaway561 2y ago
  It's still in beta. Also the market share for ColdFusion is pretty small and I imagine getting smaller every year. That said, how much do you think the market share will be for a programming language inspired by it? It's better just to either pay Adobe the license fee for ColdFusion so that you know a company will be behind it and in the meantime start migrating over to python, .net or ruby.
  • bdcravens 2y ago
    Boxlang is from Ortus, a stable consultancy that's pretty much been the go-to for tools in the CFML space for 15+ years. I'm not sure that I like the idea of using Boxlang instead of Lucee, but I have 100% confidence in Ortus (I know the founder and principal engineer, Luis Majano, and they aren't going anywhere). I used to run the Houston Adobe ColdFusion Users Group, which was sanctioned by and supported by Adobe. I have first-hand insight into their support of the language. While they continue to make money off of licenses, I can say with complete confidence that they aren't "behind it" in the way that many companies are. I'd feel more confident with the open source Lucee, a project with 16+ years of history. I can't argue with switching to another language however, for ecosystem and access to resources. (I chose Ruby over 10 years ago after building my career on CFML)