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State of the CF Union 2022 Survey Results

August 22, 2023 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

Contents

  • Server Environment
  • Your Environment
  • Frameworks and Methodology
  • Tools
  • Your programming background
  • ColdFusion Community
  • Deployment
  • Wrap up
  • Join the CF Alive revolution

Below are the partial results to date for the 2022 State of the CF Union survey. If you missed the survey you can take it here. See how you compare with other CFML developers. Discover what most developers use for tools, languages, database and development methods.

Can you help? If you have a blog, are on a ColdFusion list, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google group please share the survey so that we can get a more complete picture of the current State of the CF Union. Thanks!

And if you have not yet taken this years survey you can do so here.

Server Environment

1. What version of CFML Engine do you use? (Check all that apply)

Others

None; I no longer use CF due to community issues
None at this moment
New Atlanta's BlueDragon.NET 9

2. What type of CFML Engine are you running? (Check all that apply)

3. What CF Server OS are you using (Check all that apply)?

Your Environment

4. What OS do you run on your laptop/PC? (Check all that apply)

Others

Linux on Vagrant
Pop!_OS

5. What browsers/client platforms do you support in your apps? (Check all that apply)

Others

We don't *not* support one. Most browsers play nice now, but we test on the main ones.
Edge Chromium
Postman
Don't specifically target browser support, but don't push the boat our with our JS/CSS
N/A
Any browser
Not sure I follow. Shouldn't we try to support all browsers?
Vivaldi

6. Databases you use? (Check all that apply)

Others

AWS S3
Sybase
api
FoxPRO
DynamoDB
SAP SQL Anywhere
Trying to get my clients to leave MS Access behind.

Frameworks and Methodology

7. What MVC Frameworks do you use? (Check all that apply)

Others

test
Farcry
Kendo UI
Used to use ColdBox, but again, community issues have forced me to leave CF
Hoping to migrate to ColdBox soon!
Fusebox Hybrid
AngularJS
Internally developed
FarCry
Coldspring
I have never been trained to use MVC Frameworks
home-built framework specific to app, designed 15 years ago

8. What ColdFusion-based CMS do you use? (Check all that apply)

Others

test
in-house
Workcube
Masa
My own built CMS
Homesite
Masa CMS
WordPress
Massa
Icm
Masa CMS
WordPress 🙂
Guinevere
own
My blog runs on duct-tape and grit.
Masa CMS
Masa CMS
Masa CMS
Wheelie CMS
Masa CMS
I use a cms it's not Coldfusion tried ContentBox couldn't serve a demo on cf2016
home grown
Wordpress/Docker
Proprietary
Homemade
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9. What JavaScript libraries do you use? (Check all that apply)

Others

Custom Scfripts
Alpine.js
HTMX
Nuxt
MooTools
vanilla javascript; jEasyUI
Webix
Angular.js (the other version), Umbrella JS
HTMX
MDB5
htmx.org
Alpine.js
Alpine JS
Alpine
I have never been trained to use JavaScript Libraries
MDB5
htmx
Mootools
GSAP
Custom built
Native Web Components
Handlebars

10. What CSS frameworks do you use? (Check all that apply)

Others

Material
Bulma.css
Bulma
MJML (for E-mail), Skeleton
Quasar
Bulma
SemanticUI
Bulma
DevExtreme
Skeleton
Tachyons
semanticui
Bulma
semantic
I have never been trained to use CSS frameworks
Custom built
I write my own CSS, love learning all the cool stuff you can do with it.

11. What CFC dependency injection frameworks and tools do you use? (Check all that apply)

Others

FW/1
Plevne
coldbox built-in
I have never been trained to use CFC dependency injection frameworks

12. Which persistence frameworks do you use? (Check all that apply)

Others

Workcube
Home brewed
Masa CMS ORM
QB
I have never been trained to use persistence frameworks
idk
datamgr

13. What testing and mocking frameworks do you use? (Check all that apply)

Others

Homegrown
Canvas and orchestrator
My own review
straight up old fashioned test scripts. I find if you have to write the tests and expected result, you actually have better testing
cucumber
Playwright
Playwright
TestComplete
Playwright
Codeceptjs
Playwright
jMeter
testcafe
Reflect
thanks for the embarassing reminder... need.

14. What type of CF Mobile development frameworks are you using? (Check all that apply)

Others

Kotlin
Responsive CSS
Capacitor
not doing mobile dev in cf though we develop rest that mobile apps consume
Xojo
Kotlin Xamirin
Microsoft Xamarin/.net 6
We want to do mobile Dev
Not doing mobile Dev yet. but would like to know. Need training
app wrapper GoNative
Am currently learning more about creating Mobile Apps in CF. I will offer Mobile App dev to my clients when I am ready.

15. What miscellaneous frameworks/tools are you using? (Check all that apply)

Others

Plevne
webpack, postcss, babel, eslint
THANK YOU to Ortus for Commandbox!
CommandBox Bullet Train!
Taffy

16. What CF features do you use for code reuse? (Check all that apply)

Others

CFX tags
CF Modules
Forgebox package management through CommandBox

Tools

17. What do you use for source code control? (Check all that apply)

Others

VersionRecall
selfhosted git repositories through ssh
Vault
PVCS
Gitea
Visual SourceSafe
Beanstalk
SmartGit
Dropbox
Gitea
aws source code
OneDrive, Apple TimeMachine
Beanstalk
Git
Kiln
Gitea
Virtual imaging
WinCVS

18. What tools/IDEs do you use? (Check all that apply)

Others

Coda
Coda
Cold Fusion Report Builder
Textastic (for the Mac and iOS)
Android Studio
Editplus for FTP on occasion
Gedit
VIM
I do a lot of coding in BeyondCompare, where I can look at a similar file, function, snippet, or portion of same or different file, using the Align With feature, in the other side for reference or to assist in refactoring.
have used majority of list, selected current use
VSCodium
VS Codium
I still LOVE Homesite and use it daily. I refuse to let it go. There's nothing better (IMHO) for hand-coding CF.
Coda

19. What browser Dev Tools do you use? (Check all that apply)

Others

assorted plugins/addons
browserstack
Vue Dev Tools (chrome plugin)
Brave

20. What do you use to build REST APIs? (Check all that apply)

Others

Unknown
Output JSON with CFOUTPUT
Contract with other programmers
Masa CMS build-in
.net based webapi
Spring Boot

21. What caching solutions are you using? (Check all that apply)

Others

Varnish
DB Cache
Farcry cache
MongoDB Cache Extension for Lucee
Homegrown
ScopeCache
IIS, Coldfusion's built in caching
Akamai
Custom-built solution
Cfquery built-in cachewithin
cfwheels built in
Akamai
Just caching stuff in the Application / Server scope.
Cloudfront
Homegrown
Plans for Redis, not currently using though
CFWheels Cache
Clojure libraries
dont understand the question
custom
Custom built

22. Do you use Message Queues (MQ) in your CF apps? If so which one(s)? (Check all that apply)*

Others

Somewhat of a homegrown one to learn the basics
Google
selfhosted MTA
plan to use one this year, trying to decide
Homegrown
HiveMQ (MQTT)
Early stages of Kafka
dont understand the question

Your programming background

23. How many years have you used CFML? (Check one)

24. How many years have you used OO? (Check one)

25. Other languages/environments you use? (Check all that apply)

Others

SQL
Scala
F# Kotlin
Vue.js
Delphi
Kotlin, Dart
Bash,Power Shell
F# Kotlin
F#
I tried to get on board with .NET, but NO THANK YOU!

26. How many CF developers at your organization? (Check one)

Others

None
Not sure. Maybe a handful in my dept. The numbers have decreased over the years. All CF applications are slowly being phased out. 🙁
50
don't know; widely dispersed
Not sure how many are there, in my team 3 cf dev

27. How many total employees at your organization? (Check one)

ColdFusion Community

28. How often do you attend ColdFusion User Group meetings? (Check one)

29. What CF related topics are you interested in learning this year? (Check all that apply)*

Others

Migration to .net and Kotlin
competent linter for cfscript. Cflint is bad
leveraging existing 3rd-party Java libraries
Mobile App Development in Coldfusion
Don't know
would love to see better mobile app dev documentation and tools for building and deploying mobile apps.
Undecided
A JavaScript framework such as Angular, React, or Vue. And Design Patterns
ColdBox, TestBox
don't know enough to know WHAT i should be 🙂

30. What CF blogs do you read (Check all that apply)*

Others

I only use google and hope to find a blog 😉
blog.adamcameron.me
Twitter
Cfdocs
Cfdocs
Various. I don't read regularly, but google topics and end up at CF blogs.
Ray Camden, of course
Wil De Bruin
Matthew Clemente
https://blog.adamcameron.me/
Lucee newsletter/ news
shiftinsert.nl
ones mentioned on modernize or die podcast
Not a regular reader of any blog, but read many of these on occasional basis while Googling for information.
Raymond Camden
Ben Forta, Ray Camden
Ben Nadel has saved me hundreds of times! Wish he'd still blog more about CF. Old post from Ben Forta and Ray Camden still help on occasion. Charlie Arehart is guiding me through a migration from CF 11 to 2021 at the moment, although he does not know it. 🙂

31. Which CF conferences will/did you attend this year? (Check all that apply)* (Check all that apply)

Others

Adobe ColdFusion Summit Online
not sure yet
Not sure.
CF online summit
^ If it happens. I can't justify any of the non EU ones and not interested in virtual conferences, after trying Adobe's one last year.
Not sure, Covid, etc.
Depending on what's virtual, not going to a live event at this stage
Online itb online Adobe
(virtual only)
Likely only attend remote conferences again this year
Unknown. Am leaving current employment partly because I want to learn new things, both CF-related (OO, ColdBox, TestBox) and other languages including Ruby, Rails, React and/or other JS, and modern testing and dev practices. I hope to start out with a period of exploration and to end up where the inspiration takes me!
I can't afford to
I'm in LA, I'd love to attend something relatively close this year!
Not sure yet
I always want to go, but never find the time.

32. What online CF communities do you participate in? (Check all that apply)*

Others

Facebook
Facebook
Not anymore; the CF community forced me out for daring to ask a question.
preside slack
Coldfusion CFML Brasil
discord
Online CF Meetup
We have pretty active CF discussions within our work groups
Preside Slack
only when i have a problem
working code podcast discord
Masa

33. CF Open Source  (Check all that apply)*

Others

We are thinking of launching a CF open source project
N/A
No option
Not sure if my org will allow
None
Really just exploring the modern CF world right now…
Don't use open source
no experience
we don't use open source - not permitted to publish work publicly
n/a
Not sure
Wish there was more recent open source out there, but I've used some in the past.

34. I listen to the CF-related channels (Check all that apply)*

Others

.NET Rocks
Maybe once a year I'll have time to listen to podcast or watch cf video
I need to listen to some of these!
I haven’t listened to them yet.
how have I not, for so long? adding to list
I don't have time, wish I did.

Deployment

35. What types of DEVELOPMENT setups do you use? (Check all that apply)*

Others

We are trying Docker right now
local development, testing, then transfert to the server.
custom built tools integrated with github enterprise
Remote Desktop to client's dev environment server
Kubernetes
A shared staging web server used by all devs, with a shared staging DB server (3 environments - dev, stage, prod)
Learning docker, commandBox, etc. need more
1 Coldfusion instance per developer
None - don't say it. Yes, I know. But every line of code is mine so I usually get away with this.
... yes, I know, but all the code is mine, so I can usually get away with this.

36. What types of PRODUCTION deployments do you use? (Check all that apply)*

Others

Not sure, I don't handle that stuff much.
N/A
Gcp
Just file move from UAT to prod
Kubernetes w/ containers
DeployHQ
CommandBox
DeployHQ
Azure vm deployments with custom code
Cloud
We use Azure VM’s and services
Shared hosting for external CF sites, own installations on VMs in LAN for internal sites and applications.
GIT

37. What hosting services do you use for your PRODUCTION deployments? (Check all that apply)*

Others

CONTABO
Local Datacenter
Swiss services
IBM Cloud
https://www.weareha.co.uk/
Google
my own server hosted.
LuceePlanet
Handy Networks
netcup, hetzner
Colo with VMs.
LiquidWeb
Google cloud
N/A
Hurricane Electric
NewTek
NewTek
Gcp
Local hosting company (internex.at)
Ntirety
ovh
IBM
Local datacentre
Godaddy
Herzberg vm
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38. What Docker Image(s) are you using, if applicable? (Check all that apply)

Others

Don't use docker
none
None
none
n/a
Docker is evil.
None
no docker
None
None
None
Don't use docker.
None
None
None
minibox
We are just starting with containers
NA
None
None
none
None
just starting this journey... undecided
don't know - sorry
idk
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39. What deployment/build tools do you use? (Check all that apply)*

Others

Powershell
Capistrano
Self made deployment
deploybot
Docker Build
Maven, gradle
git push
Webpack
Don't know
Rsync
Custom git script called from Coldfusion page
custom scripts
Buddy
Gitea
Bamboo
CodeShip
Shell scripts
Yarn
rsync
Buddy.works
Capistrano
Bamboo
Hostek custom hooks from git repos
DeployHQ
Bamboo
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40. What monitoring tools are you using? (Check all that apply)*

Others

Grafana, Azure Log Analytics
Sentry
DigitalOcean monitors
Unknown
Appdynamics
PRTG
Lumigo
Depends
SolarWinds
PRTG
Don't know
Gcp
host monitors
Sentry
Sentry and Uptime Robot
ELK, Prometheus, Grafana
Uptime Robot
Pingdom
BeyondUptime
Sentry
Host does
idk ops does monitoring
Rollbar
Pingdom.com / freshping
Lucee
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41. How do you lock down your servers for security? (Check all that apply)*

Others

Actually I need to check that
Aws WAF
DISA
Don't know
not sure
fuseguard, local scripts and STIG applications along with boundary protection on our FW
Pete Freitag guide
DISA STIGs
DoD STIGs
Dont understand the question
Handle by other team
Internal only
OWASP
firewall; web server path restrictions
Managed by another team - I don't know
Combination lock down guides and CF Best practices.
Not sure
It is not my duty, I don't know
At least I didn't check "What's security?", Lol.

42. Have your CF servers suffered from a hacking exploit in the last 2 years due to a CF-based vector? (Remember, this is anonymous) (Check all that apply)*

Others

windows 2008 R2 server, I do not know how.
out of date version - who likes to upgrade? Put it off as long as possible
Not that I'm aware of
Windows exploited
Not knowingly
Lucee admin hack
Log4j
No- but. Not at all pleased with Adobe's speed of updates esp Log4j 1.x
Word press on server let them in
Lucee still has unpatched RCEs (june 2022)
Not sure
I ensure that our CF installations are up to date and I code for secure pages. Have never been hacked via ColdFusion. Hope I didn't just jinx my company by saying that.

43. Are you using or planning to use AWS Lambda (serverless) (Check all that apply)*

Others

never heard of it
Would like more info on this
It's on our radar as a possibility but nothing planned
No, but it may be planned in middle terms
No I wasn't aware of it so not planning to yet.
Lambda with Node.js
Not my call. I don't know if that's a plan for some clients or not.
Node.js Lambda on AWS
Se use AWS Lambda directly with Node.js and integrate its API with CF
Yes, but not with CFML
Have used it for years, but not running CFML on it
Quite possibly. I was just made aware of this option.
Lambda with Node
Possibly, we use it outside of CF already
no sure
Uncertain
Not sure
maybe
Node
Will consider
No, but I want to, don't I? Should I? We are researching options to reduce spend and improve release SOP
Managed by another team - I don't know
Not sure

44. What aspects of CF are keeping you and/or your company using it? (Check all that apply)*

Others

Existing long-term applications
Long time ago we started using so legacy applications still use it
Adobe continues to improve and modernize CF
To old to learn a new language 😉
We are actively porting away from CFML
Simple database interaction
Lucee is free and works well
Legacy code, in the process of replacing with different tech stack.
Moving away from CF soon
It's the fastest language to code in. It doesn't take a bunch of libraries imported in every program just to function.
Too costly, in resources and time, to port to different solution
We are moving away from it, good riddance.
I am no longer using CF
CMS is written in CFML
already skilled
Rewriting in NodeJS
Team Specialty
Looking to move to .NET
1. It’s simplicity. 2. Easy and fast to teach to new developers.
Ortus
Familiar
so easy to get complex tasks done quickly
CommandBox and Forgebox for package management. It's like Node JS, but makes more sense.
Our new CIO has declared we will be a Microsoft only shop and that CF is going away.
Ortus Solutions and Lucee, CFML Slack
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Wrap up

45. What aspects of CF are preventing you or your company from embracing CF? (Check all that apply)*

Others

Social media bashing
Quite unknown in Switzerland
Not enough YOUNG developers (Fresh Blood)
Perception of Security
It's sunsetting technology. You'd be a fool to persist with it
Adobe
Lack of support to modern security scanning tools
No new beginner coders being actively developed in North America
Upgrade costs have kept many people on old versions
Lack of community support.
Legacy code in 3 languages - too costly to consolodate.
Adobe is too slow to support new OS versions.
Can't stress enough Adobe poor marketing of CF
its very underserved reputation
the doc examples for many things are weak, especially features like building mobile apps. You are missing a great opp with this... CF is so easy to build apps, allow us to build a deploy custom mobile apps for phones.
Just wanted to say 'Cost/licencing issues' twice, since Adobe doubled their prices.
Adobe sucks.
Community is small, so cutting edge solutions aren't as battle tested as in larger communities
License Costs
Misinformed leadership team with a Microsoft bias.
CF is Dead --- Poor Adobe Marketing of CF
Need better CI/CD DevSecOps tools
I use lucee
Super expensive Adobe licences, Lucee not fully compatible
Nothing is preventing us. We use CF almost exclusively.
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46.  What are your company’s plans for your technology stack, if any? (Check all that apply)*

If migrating FROM CFML to another language, please specify

We will incorporate some Node where relevant
Considering moving to php
Node.JS
Kotlin
Moving from monolithic app to microservices (akka based)
Puthon PHP Kotlin
Migrating to Microservices using .NET Core
From CF to .net.. it's a shame
Python, Node.js
NodeJs Python
WordPress / PHP and Angular / React
Node
clients want fancy new solutions
Java, JavaScript, Go, serverless
.NET
.Net
Language agnostic bit go or jvm based
NodeJS
nodes express
.net
once we get app into a seperation of concerns state, then CF's benifit of integrating server-side with HTML becomes moot - REST API does not need CF and client side does not use CF. Microservices running CF would help mitigate departure.
No plans
Looking for a new enterprise CMS
.Net Core
python, golang
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If migrating from another language TO CFML, please specify

No plans
PHP
Node
Would love to move DNN to ContentBox but really having issues putting together proof of concept
JavaScript
Management wants us to migrate to .NET

47. What is your approximate salary range in USD? (Remember, this is anonymous) (Check one)

Others

Pass
Not disclosing
Including additional income on a per-Job basis with non-salary side projects
We do not disclose data like this.
Really, 85-150
Skip
Can't disclose
NA
sole proprietor of two pivoting businesses
I own this corporation. There is me and one other CF developer I trained myself. We supplement with Wordpress, PHP on VPS.
I own the corporation, we offer web design and Dev to small-medium size companies.

48.  What is your current arrangement for CF work? (Check all that apply)*

Others

Entrepreneure
Currently not on a CF project. Details provided are for previous project.
career position and co-owner and freelance on retainer.
Full service includes development
I have a full time CF day job and a part time CF side job
In flux - leaving in-house employment, exploring remote opportunities, planning independent learning activities (and possible “sabbatical”) to transition from ancient to modern CF and other skills.
sorry, I'm salary remote. But I've selected all options we employ currently.
Personal projects

49. What industry is your company in? (Check all that apply)*

Others

Non-profit
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50. Any additional comments/suggestions for the survey?

test

test

test

test

Question 44:
What aspects of CF keep you and/or your company using it? (Check all that apply)**

The answers don't make sense the way the question is asked

Thanks for putting this together each year. We appreciate your hard work and dedication to the community!

Would love to know if Adobe is going to update the CFExchange tags since MS is ending support for Basic Auth.

The questions have been modernised since the last time I looked at this (which was last year, I think). Good work.

Still waiting for full SQL support for query of queries (especially left join)

I am french, need to know if they are Lucee users in France, and also CF users.
To get a nearer relation.

Continue with your great work! I was very positively moved by your talks about cold depression. It's been a great help!

The entire cfml universe needs so much improvement with the onboarding of new developers. From a newbie perspective, its not very inviting or easy or modern.

When you ask Standard or Enterprise, also ask how many servers and instances are run in production. Would like to know the scale of production installs. One standard? One enterprise with 2 or 3 instances? 10 enterprise servers, 8 instances per server?

We are moving away from CFML. I wish it would be open sourced by adobe. It's time to move on. Personally I am already know the .NET which allows me to have better career and better salary.

It was a good survey. I really liked the questions. We are a community in Turkey employing approximately 500 people. We have been developing Workcube for 20 years. We love the Coldfusion community.

Feel like CF hit bottom a few years back and is having a modest resurgence. But it's not new people sadly, but people coming back to CF because it now offers features it previously lacked that forced them to leave the community.

There's a real opportunity for CF to gain popularity with Lambda/serverless as the easy to use solution. I'm hopeful but realistic they might fumble the opportunity.

We're currently beginning the transition from CF <= 2016 on three different OSs to CF 2021 on Windows.

Answers based on previous employer. Working with CF was harmful to my career because of low usage. Now working with node.js express. So nice to use same language in both front and back.

Convert the survey to be a mobile-first or friendly typeform type experience.

Organize the questions between mandatory and optional

Ask what people are looking for in 2022 from Lucee/CF

Thanks for all your work in doing this 🙂

ColdFusion is supposedly on a comeback trajectory. Is there any evidence to support this rumor?

Might be a good idea to ask if the person answering does only in house work (ie, a developer for a company that has a lot of Coldfusion projects) or works in a code shop that does CF work for client companies, or is an independent contractor. Also in addition to salary, ask what hourly rate contractors make. I've done both and it's a pretty big difference.

Check to see if participant is actually using cold fusion right at the start and curtail survey if they are not..

Adobe too slow fixing the bugs and far behind the features, tools compare to NodeJS. Plus license cost is too high. Coldfusion perceive as dead language.

No - thanks for coordinating it

Most of us in my small local CF community feel that Adobe is not fully committed to CF. It does not market it as a great alternative to existing platforms, it is very slow to launch new versions compatible with new OS versions, its cloud/serverless offering is lacking, it is slow to adopt trends (i.e.: it will probably take it about 5 more years to integrate with the Ethereum blockchain and NFTs), they no longer support visual development with Dreamweaver, and many other little things.

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