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State of the CF Union 2022 Survey Results 4. – Tools

January 17, 2025 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

Below are the results to date for the 2022 State of the CF Union survey. This is the fourth part of the Survey, about Tools to speed up your CF development and make better apps.

For those of you who don't have time to read it now, here is a link to Download the PDF and read it later.

If you want to see the other 7 parts, just click on the section below.

1. Server Environment | 2. Your Environment | 3. Frameworks and Methodology | 4. Tools | 5. Your Programming Background | 6. ColdFusion Community | 7. Deployment | 8. Wrap up

 

Contents

  • 4. Tools
    • 17. What do you use for source code control? (Check all that apply)
    • 18. What tools/IDEs do you use? (Check all that apply)
    • 19. What browser Dev Tools do you use? (Check all that apply)
    • 20. What do you use to build REST APIs? (Check all that apply)
    • 21. What caching solutions are you using? (Check all that apply)
    • 22. Do you use Message Queues (MQ) in your CF apps? If so which one(s)? (Check all that apply)

4. 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

Previous: 3. Frameworks and Methodology

Next: 5. Your Programming Background

Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 100 ColdFusion experts. In each interview, she asks "What Would It Take to make CF more alive this year?" The answers still inspire her to continue to write and interview new speakers.

Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for more than 20 years. She founded TeraTech in 1989. The company specializes in ColdFusion application development, security and optimization. She has also founded the CFUnited Conference and runs the annual State of the CF Union Survey.

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