Remember ColdFusion?
While reading the article titled, "Lessons from a lost decade: Developing for a disposable Web", I noticed the mention of ColdFusion at the end of the second paragraph. I found the article to be interesting and made valid points, but again I'm sad to see ColdFusion portrayed as a defunct language in the main stream tech media. Am I defensive or do others feel the same way?
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Again... Is it dead, is it dead.... Same kind of people like to say that "future" is in dynamic or functional languages and various frameworks like scala, groovy, F#, Rails etc. They all miss one thing, CFML is probably one of the first dynamic languages made for webdevelopment, years before others jumped-in, plus CF is a framework for Java (At least I like to see it like that). I think the biggest YES and in the same time the biggest NO for CF is the same thing, it's EASY TO LEARN. YES because you can start doing amazing things in less then 4 weeks, and NO because you make amazing crap of code even after 4 years of development and still fly under the radar :) But that's not problem of CF, it's problem of all "new" languages and frameworks.
As long as there are businesses out there using Coldfusion, a part of me doesn't care if other developers think it is dead. That just means less job competition and higher wages for me!