At my fiat mining job we have a lot of web applications that are programmed in Adobe Cold Fusion. One thing I noticed is not a single bitcoin application I ever came across uses this programming language.
So I must ask is cold fusion dead? Should I be putting pressure on the dev team switch into something a bit more modern?
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Depends on what you mean by dead. I learned CF in the early 2000s and even then it wasn't used much outside of gov/education.
100%, though it has nothing to do with modern. It has to do with what you can run it on. License requirements and most importantly finding devs that know it and enjoy using it.
I don't know a single dev that writes CF anymore. Its owned by Adobe and I NEVER see it listed in reports on programming languages. I don't see it as a requirement in job postings. I don't know a single company that uses it.
I was curious so I used Google Trends and you can see the trend over the past 20 years.
I would NEVER write an app with this language. There are so many better options.
Great answer thank you!
Hey, I hope you can talk some sense into them.
To me besides functionality one of the biggest factors if you are a mid to large company with a language is hiring. Can you hire good devs to fill the roles.
My pleasure. FWIW at the time as a new dev I liked CF but I didn't know much and quickly found the value in the many open source ecosystems. Wordpress and mainly the Drupal opened my eyes to the power of open source code and collaboration. Changed my life really.
From a former tech headhunter, it's dead
I've never heard of it which would mean it's dead, newly born, or used for very niche applications.
However still used in legacy systems and government applications, adine has announced an end to it's life.
https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion-builder-eol-faq.
oh boy, that is old, very old
Never heard of it. So I’m guessing it’s long dead, rotting away, and buried under a thick layer of dust. 😄
Never heard of it.
And Adobe is one of the worst companies to be vendor-locked with, so you should absolutely champion a transition into an open standard, if at all possible.
I've never heard of it. What were some of its advantages over other languages back when it was starting off?
https://www.fosterwebmarketing.com/blog/coldfusion-the-powerful-development-platform-that-drives-dss.cfm
There’s this persistent myth out there that ColdFusion is a “dead” scripting language. It comes up every once in a while, usually after some kind of clickbait video goes viral with the proclamation. Everyone else jumps on the bandwagon, and the myth gets revived and circulated in the name of clicks. And, each time, we see a big uptick in the number of alarmed questions we get about the scripting language we prefer to use and why.
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