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pud's latest project is still on the homepage of HN and he wrote it in CFML: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6519743 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6
by rip747 13y ago
pud's latest project is still on the homepage of HN and he wrote it in CFML: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6519743 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6519743 Just because project X is not written in your language of choice, means absolutely nothing. Its all about execution and this project is pretty impressive.
- harel 13y agoIf I remember correctly, F#&@ed Company, pud's old wonder box of startup gossip was also done in ColdFusion (though in those days it was quite a good platform to do web stuff).
- davidgerard 13y agoNo, there just wasn't a less-worse one. Bloody PHP is an improvement on ColdFusion.
- harel 13y agoI disagree with you here. Although I would not choose ColdFusion for anything these days, in 1998/1999 it was a super fast way to get a web site/app together. Post 2000 it was converted to Java and became a glorified JSP tag library. It was a good platform that didn't stand the test of time.
- davidgerard 13y agoI remember it being quite horrible around that time. But, as you say, a fast way to get a site together. I maintain that PHP was actually less worse, and I despise PHP with a contempt that would give [INSERT DICTATOR HERE] pause.
- pbreit 13y agoSorry, but choice of language means more than nothing. ColdFusion is pretty dead-end and not a particularly good choice these days for a variety of reasons.
- timsayshey 13y agoI agree that Adobe's ColdFusion is deadend but not Open Source Railo which is more of a Java Framework. At the end of the day there's no logical reason against CFML any more than there is against PHP, Rails, etc.
- pbreit 13y agoSorry, but it is completely logical to choose Ruby/Rails, Python/Django, etc over CFML in 2013 for web projects.
- jere 13y ago>ColdFusion is... not a particularly good choice these days for a variety of reasons. Not that I disagree with you, but I wonder if the reasons you have in mind are valid. A lot of the reasons one might assume CF sucks aren't really applicable (i.e. speed, security) any more than most other languages.
- pbreit 13y agoI assume all major-ish choices have decent speed, security, etc. The main things are activity, books, resources, people to hire, libraries, support, etc.
- cfjedimaster 13y agoAs we (I work for Adobe!) have talked publicly about the next rev of ColdFusion, and have shown features, talked about focus areas, etc, it is certainly not dead-end in terms of active product development.
- rip747 13y agowe need a package manager (aka bundler). just passing that along :)
- harel 13y ago