I Always Said ColdFusion Sucked
I was glad to see ColdFusion make it on this list of the top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills. It’s a ridiculous “language” that I never bothered to learn and used to tell people was craptastic and worthless when it was brand new and everybody and their mother was looking for people that knew it. I clearly remember being told that I just had to learn ColdFusion or I was going to miss the next web wave. I scoffed, learned ASP and PHP, and think I made the right call.
I was surprised to see C on the list, though. I guess I can understand that there aren’t many people actually programming in the original C, but I’d say that the basic principles of the language — including C++ and all of its children — are still pretty important.
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June 27th, 2007 at 9:46 am
ColdFusion used to suck. 5 Years ago, it was a terrible platform. Much has changed, and it now leads true web application platforms in both speed and features. If you feel that PHP (and ASP, for that matter) is a better platform then CF, you clearly don’t know anything about the language or the platform.
June 27th, 2007 at 9:58 am
But I do certainly know the difference between “than” and “then”, so it doesn’t really bother me when people tell me I don’t know anything.
June 27th, 2007 at 10:05 am
But do you know how to read dates? The article in question was posted, debated, refuted, and put to bed over a month ago. Old news dude.
June 27th, 2007 at 10:22 am
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
If someone said PHP was a dying technology, I would roll my eyes and forget about it.
June 27th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
[...] I Always Said ColdFusion Sucks - davidgagne.netFunny. I met a guy at a conference a few months back who wrote his own framework in ColdFusion. He swore by it. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.(tags: programming code coldfusion weblog ) [...]
June 27th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Wow, I guess “Ignorance is bliss”, for someone who uses other developers code (ie Wordpress) and has nothing to offer the “PHP” or “ASP” community, you sure do have a big opinion on something you know nothing about.
I bet your a “web developer” that uses “PHP” and pretty much creates websites for clients using open source code. In my opinion I think your a “script kiddie”, look that up!
June 28th, 2007 at 5:03 am
If you’ve “never bothered to learn” ColdFusion, how can you criticize it? Perhaps if you are going to blog about how a technology sucks, then you should provide some objective reasons for why you believe that to be true which might actually benefit someone. Your post only shows your ignorance and a lack of willingness to learn and understand, and no matter what language you write, with an attitude like that you will always fail.
June 28th, 2007 at 5:26 am
Now that the great David Gagne has has declared his ignorance on ColdFusion, I’m sure Adobe will just end of life it. He did after all write one awesome Photoshop tutorial showing the world how to frame kitty photos to look like shoddy Polaroids. Actually when I wrote ‘awesome’, I actually meant ‘retarded’ and ‘worthless’.
Keep up the good work! I’m sure this one will make the exclusive ‘top 5 posts’ list along with ‘dolphin sex’ and ‘bart simpson cartoon’. The internet is forever in your debt.
June 28th, 2007 at 6:57 am
Ha!
June 28th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Ha Ha. A bit of a harsh statement, David, but I agree that ColdFusion has never been the best decision. We develop almost exclusively in ASP.net, MS SQLserver, PHP, and AJAX. Occasionally we use MySQL as our DB engine, and we also do a lot of Flash. We think this is the future.
One thing I must say, is that Computerworld readers hardly represent the mainstream of this business. I think most of them have hearing aids, and require walkers to get around. They think an iPod is some sort of biological specimen. I could easily create my own top 10 list of losers, and put ASP.net on it based on the responses of MacWorld readers.
July 22nd, 2007 at 1:28 am
It seems that the original article claims that ColdFusion as a technology is dying along with programmers that know only C. C, the programming language, is alive and kicking, and it is absurd to think that a widely adopted programming language is dying because of the Web.
David mentions only PHP and ASP as things that he’s learned, and I guess that can lead people to some confusion. Afterall, if I only see PHP or ASP on a person’s curriculum vitae, I’d dismiss the candidate as a script-kiddie as well.
Perhaps, David is involved with the implementation of distributed and highly available enterprise applications. His designs might even require the use of strongly typed programming languages or languages that ease system implementation among a team of developers that he overlooks. Maybe, he’s doing a better job than others (like me) on not blogging about what he actually does at work. And when I say “perhaps” or “maybe” in this paragraph, I mean “definitely.”
David was just stating that he was glad to adopt ASP and PHP instead of CF. In retrospect, I’m also glad that he made this decision. It’s his opinion that CF sucks, and it seems that trends in the markets that CF targets appear to support it. Introducing other parts of this site into this discussion simply distracts readers from the point that ColdFusion sucks.
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I bought the hype of Ruby on Rails, and luckily, I never had the time to pick it up.
November 5th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
>> It’s a ridiculous “language” that I never bothered to learn and used to tell people was craptastic and worthless when it was brand new and everybody and their mother was looking for people that knew it.
Let me translate: I don’t know anything about it but I have a very strong opinion on the matter.
Last time I looked, that was called prejudice.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Coldfusion indeed sucks major spidermonkey testicles. Used it for four years…only because my previous employer was mildly retarded and half their clients were dished out CF based sites. They are slowly moving away from it now…I’m glad I quit when I did though
June 7th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
[...] old web application. Fortunately for me this means goodbye to my two favorite development tools, ColdFusion and MS SQL. The combination of these two was too much to bear, and the former continually crashed [...]
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:29 pm
You are getting kicked square in the nuts!
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Right on David. CF = worthless.
Adrock - oh how clever you are. Thank you for gracing us with your brilliance. It appears from your remark that you might disagree with David on how worthless CF is in modern webdev. Surely you make your comments as an independent, unbiased individual without any intentions besides promoting what you believe to be true.
or, wait a sec…
it says on your blog you work for adobe! hmmm, perhaps you do have some interest in covering up how absurd CF has become.
love the disclaimers on adrocksomemadeupthing.net - “all rights reserved” for instance. So does that include the co-opted tri-force, copyright Nintendo? Or how about the Adobe logo, copyright Adobe?