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I've made a very good living with ColdFusion consistently since I picked it up in 1997. There are now several really nice MVC frameworks for ColdFusion out there. If you've not used it in decades, it has a fully script-based syntax now, and there is a strong free CF engine (Lucee).

The newest integrations with AI are definitely interesting.

I've been pleasantly surprised to see some inklings of growth in CF adoption, though I'm comfortable saying that most new code in ANY language is going to be written with AI going forward.

With the latest PHP vulnerabilities - ColdFusion is actually a selling point: "Gee, it doesn't run 60+ percent of the internet, but it's actively maintained and can be configured to be secure."

conductr 8 hours ago [ - ]

> it has a fully script-based syntax now

What does this mean? This being a revelation for a web tech solution strikes me as strange. I saw a tiny bit of CF like 25 years ago and perhaps mistakenly thought it did this back then.

bitexploder 7 hours ago [ - ]

It used by be a markup language like:

  <cfif blah="something is true">do this<cfelse>do that</cfif>

But now it has its own scripting language like:

  <cfscript>
  // scripty stuff
  </cfscript>

At least, that is how it used to be :)

conductr 5 hours ago [ - ]

Ahh. Yeah. Well that sparks a memory of why I quickly went another direction after looking at it back then when I was learning web dev lol. Tbf a lot of people were, probably still are, using PHP and JavaScript way back then too. It just made sense for me to do some MVC style separation long before I found out there was an acronym for it.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, I used to write a bunch of ColdFusion with a dude that owned an S2000 :)