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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)
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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)
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5. What browsers/client platforms do you support in your apps? (Check all that apply)
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6. Databases you use? (Check all that apply)
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Frameworks and Methodology
7. What MVC Frameworks do you use? (Check all that apply)
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8. What ColdFusion-based CMS do you use? (Check all that apply)
Others
| SiteFusion |
| I have never been trained to use CMS. I don't know what this is. |
| Don’t use a CF CMS. All CMS-based development where I work has been moved to WordPress or headless WordPress and React. |
| Spanz CMS |
| I have built my own |
| Custom built |
| Masa |
| Our clients use my custom CMS and love it. |
| Masa |
9. What JavaScript libraries do you use? (Check all that apply)
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10. What CSS frameworks do you use? (Check all that apply)
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11. What CFC dependency injection frameworks and tools do you use? (Check all that apply)
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12. Which persistence frameworks do you use? (Check all that apply)
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13. What testing and mocking frameworks do you use? (Check all that apply)
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14. What type of CF Mobile development frameworks are you using? (Check all that apply)
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15. What miscellaneous frameworks/tools are you using? (Check all that apply)
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16. What CF features do you use for code reuse? (Check all that apply)
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Tools
17. What do you use for source code control? (Check all that apply)
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18. What tools/IDEs do you use? (Check all that apply)
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19. What browser Dev Tools do you use? (Check all that apply)
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20. What do you use to build REST APIs? (Check all that apply)
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21. What caching solutions are you using? (Check all that apply)
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22. Do you use Message Queues (MQ) in your CF apps? If so which one(s)? (Check all that apply)*
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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)
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26. How many CF developers at your organization? (Check one)
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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)*
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30. What CF blogs do you read (Check all that apply)*
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31. Which CF conferences will/did you attend this year? (Check all that apply)* (Check all that apply)
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32. What online CF communities do you participate in? (Check all that apply)*
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33. CF Open Source (Check all that apply)*
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34. I listen to the CF-related channels (Check all that apply)*
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Deployment
35. What types of DEVELOPMENT setups do you use? (Check all that apply)*
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36. What types of PRODUCTION deployments do you use? (Check all that apply)*
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37. What hosting services do you use for your PRODUCTION deployments? (Check all that apply)*
Others
| Tim |
| Just file move from UAT to prod |
| N//A |
| Hyve |
| Dedicated serves on Scaleway DeDibox |
| Fasthosts, Easyspace |
| Node4/Secura |
| OVH |
| Handy Networks |
| Hetzner |
| Shared data centers |
| Ionos |
| RapidSwitch |
| IBM Cloud |
| None |
| Transip vps |
| Oracle Cloud |
| Oracle Cloud |
| Glesys.se |
| Hostmedia |
| None |
| Jenkins |
| Hetzner |
| Luceeplanet.com |
| elmec |
38. What Docker Image(s) are you using, if applicable? (Check all that apply)
Others
| Not sure what that is. |
39. What deployment/build tools do you use? (Check all that apply)*
Others
| Custom scripts that push from dev to prod |
| DeployHQ |
| Bamboo |
| octopus |
| I need to start using automation |
| FileZilla |
| None internally, Hostek auto-deployment from GitHub externally. |
| Sourcetree, not built for this, but we make it work, kind of... |
| buddy.works |
| Git Hooks |
| automated git pulls |
| Deploybot |
| rsync |
40. What monitoring tools are you using? (Check all that apply)*
Others
| Cross-monitoring |
| nagios, zabbix, icing |
| Sentry |
| Zabbix |
| Elasticsearch |
| Don't know |
| Not sure |
| Zabbix, ELK + Grafana, Sentry |
| Custom |
| Uptime Doctor |
| Managed by another team - I don't know |
| Homegrown - Logparser with Grafana and ipsentry |
| We do, but I have not specifically |
| Not sure |
| It is not my duty, I don't know |
41. How do you lock down your servers for security? (Check all that apply)*
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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)*
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43. Are you using or planning to use AWS Lambda (serverless) (Check all that apply)*
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44. What aspects of CF are keeping you and/or your company using it? (Check all that apply)*
Others
| We’re migrating away due to the lack of talent in our price range |
| Already have developer knowledge on staff |
| Already have developer knowledge on staff |
| Great backwards Compatibility in CFEngine, however not so much in Frameworks |
| Getting rid of CF ASAP |
| It’s a very reliable and stable platform |
| too old to learn any other language |
| I like CF! |
| I am the only developer and CF is what I know. |
| Because I've been in the CF world since Alaire 3.5... |
| Excellent Database Integration |
| Rapid Application Development environment |
| Easily integrates into .net environments |
| It was already in use by company |
| Most of my clients are small businesses that use my custom CMS written in CF. 300 of our clients use it. So much easier than Wordpress! |
Wrap up
45. What aspects of CF are preventing you or your company from embracing CF? (Check all that apply)*
Others
| Whomever started the "Coldfusion is dying" campaign deserves a major award. I've heard this for 20+ year now... slow death I guess. Cost of VPS and Ability to find good affordable developers are the biggest struggle |
| Lack of 3rd Party API Support, Not Scalable for Server-Sent Events |
| Price of enterprise servers!! We're a pseudo-nonprofit and the costs are prohibitive. |
| ColdFusion is wonderful. It hurts to see Google searches asking if ColdFusion is dead. ouch. |
| Thank you for helping people to know that CF is still a very a great way to go! And THANKS TO ADOBE for not giving up on it! |
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
| NodeJS |
| Java, Spring Boot |
| NodeJs and React |
| C#/.NET |
| React, python |
| Unsure |
| to PHP, JS and Python |
| Node.js, Express.js, VueJS |
| To pure Java with Spring Boot |
| Looking for alternatives. Node.js on Lambda is a possibility. |
| Python / Node |
| .net |
| .net |
| Possibly Java Spring |
| c# |
| Node |
| .net stack |
| Java |
| Node |
| Node |
| Going to a MQ and microservice architecture with a mixed tech stack, probably Python & Rust |
| PHP/WordPress |
| PHP |
| PHP |
| New CIO decreed that all project are to be rewritten in Azure and PowerApps |
If migrating from another language TO CFML, please specify
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47. What is your approximate salary range in USD? (Remember, this is anonymous) (Check one)
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48. What is your current arrangement for CF work? (Check all that apply)*
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49. What industry is your company in? (Check all that apply)*
Others
| Web services, SaaS programming |
| Construction |
| Marketing/Research |
| Insurance |
| specifics needs |
| Engineering Consulting |
| Recreation |
50. Any additional comments/suggestions for the survey?
Always concerned about CF dying. Also, the lack of CF jobs. In addition, the lack of CF being introduced in college’s. If we can get the young upcoming devs introduced to CF it would help grow the community. IMO, this where CF is lacking and it’s essential that they fix it to keep CF alive.
Keep up the great work! I appreciate your enthusiasm and all of the ways that you all have pushed the CF community along! We need the push!
Would be nice if job openings in CF are easily accessible like for other tech.
Would be nice if Adobe itself provides few opportunity for CF developers.
Great survey. If in search of topics my shop is always "moving" toward new mostly front end stacks. The current choice is vue apps with tailwind using an in house design system. I would be interested in other developers experience tying ColdFusion front ends in with a javascript framework like vue. We have sort of been relegated to the "Back End" dev role where previously with all ColdFusion based coding we were more "Full Stack". It would be great to learn how to better integrate CF code with vue instead of just being the back end API code. Thanks again.
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Thanks for doing this, good to see how the community invests in CFML.
Please let us know the result of an Survey. Thanks.
The CF Summit question should probably just have the online Summit and not east/west since it's just been online the past couple of years. Hopefully we'll be in person next year!
When will be ready the Adobe CF extensions for visual studio code ?
Hands down the best server-side web programming language and platform out there. You can move mountains with CF and using it, I have saved the US Government over $161 million dollars.
Aside from a couple of my own sites and projects I used to work on, I've moved on from Adobe's version of CFML. I do watch what is going on with Lucee but am slightly dismayed at the lack of acceptance for it. Hell, I honestly believe that had Allaire released Coldfusion/CFML out and open-sourced it before the two idiot companies (Macromedia and then Adobe) took it over, we wouldn't be in the current PHP/WordPress-Hell that we are in now. Personally, I LOVE what Lucee is doing but feel that it is way too in the "day-late-dollar-short" department. Too many people love the "If it is free it is for me" concept that PHP brought to the table with its crappy syntax. But hey, "free" tends to be like that and PHP come out at the right time while CFML dwindled into irrelevancy in Macromedia and even more so when Adobe got it and banished Coldfusion/CFML to the outer-hells of irrelevancy because it wasn't an important cash-cow to them like all the other eyegasm goodies they acquired in the GREAT Macromedia hoovering. Anyway, yes, I like Lucee. But NO, I will not ever touch Adobe's Abomination servers that run Coldfusion. And I doubt I'll do much with it again in my career. Thank you for the survey and good luck!
Thanks for doing this survey. It's always interesting to read the results.
Viva la CF!
Great survey, looking forward to seeing the results.
Thanks for your ongoing enthusiastic support of CF and the CF community. I am looking forward to seeing you at in-person CF events!
The CF community must do a better job of conveying that CF is a secure way to develop apps.
The CF community must do a better job at showing the long term viability of ColdFusion.
We know these are not issues but those in charge of making decisions need an easy way to see this.
Keep up the good work - all the best!
Thanks for continuing to do the survey
I would love to see the backwards compatibility of CF also in its frameworks. However I habe experienced that updating or upgrading a framework often is a pain in the ass
Great job keeping this going ever year! Thank you 🙂
Lucee is an amazing product. It would be nice to have a (current) roadmap page on the Lucee website. It’s difficult to plan upgrades and migrations without knowing lucre’s plans.
Want to help to make CFML hot again.
I love cf
good activity
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