Below are the results to date for the 2022 State of the CF Union survey. This is the eighth and the last part of the Survey, Wrap up which covers why you like/don't like CF, your work, how you work and your comments.
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.
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1. Server Environment | 2. Your Environment | 3. Frameworks and Methodology | 4. Tools | 5. Your Programming Background | 6. ColdFusion Community | 7. Deployment | 8. Wrap up
Questions in this part:
44. What aspects of CF are keeping you and/or your company using it? (Check all that apply)
45. What aspects of CF are preventing you or your company from embracing CF? (Check all that apply)
46. What are your company’s plans for your technology stack, if any? (Check all that apply)
47. What is your approximate salary range in USD? (Remember, this is anonymous) (Check one)
48. What is your current arrangement for CF work? (Check all that apply)
49. What industry is your company in? (Check all that apply)
50. Any additional comments/suggestions for the survey?
8. Wrap up
44. What aspects of CF are keeping you and/or your company using it? (Check all that apply)
Others
already skilled |
CMS is written in CFML |
I am no longer using CF |
We are moving away from it, good riddance. |
Too costly, in resources and time, to port to different solution |
It's the fastest language to code in. It doesn't take a bunch of libraries imported in every program just to function. |
Moving away from CF soon |
Legacy code, in the process of replacing with different tech stack. |
Lucee is free and works well |
Simple database interaction |
We are actively porting away from CFML |
To old to learn a new language 😉 |
Adobe continues to improve and modernize CF |
Long time ago we started using so legacy applications still use it |
Existing long-term applications |
45. What aspects of CF are preventing you or your company from embracing CF? (Check all that apply)
Others
It's sunsetting technology. You'd be a fool to persist with it |
Perception of Security |
Not enough YOUNG developers (Fresh Blood) |
Quite unknown in Switzerland |
Social media bashing |
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
php,laravel |
Java |
NodeJS + NExtJS |
New CIO decreed that all project are to be rewritten in Azure and PowerApps |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP/WordPress |
Going to a MQ and microservice architecture with a mixed tech stack, probably Python & Rust |
Node |
Node |
Java |
.net stack |
Node |
c# |
Possibly Java Spring |
.net |
.net |
Python / Node |
Looking for alternatives. Node.js on Lambda is a possibility. |
To pure Java with Spring Boot |
Node.js, Express.js, VueJS |
to PHP, JS and Python |
Unsure |
React, python |
C#/.NET |
If migrating from another language TO CFML, please specify
No entries match your request. |
47. What is your approximate salary range in USD? (Remember, this is anonymous) (Check one)
Others
No entries match your request. |
48. What is your current arrangement for CF work? (Check all that apply)
Others
No entries match your request. |
49. What industry is your company in? (Check all that apply)
Others
Arts/Entertainment/Recreation |
Non-profit |
Real Estate |
50. Any additional comments/suggestions for the survey?
Keep up the good work - all the best!
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.
Thanks for your ongoing enthusiastic support of CF and the CF community. I am looking forward to seeing you at in-person CF events!
Great survey, looking forward to seeing the results.
Viva la CF!
Thanks for doing this survey. It's always interesting to read the results.
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!
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.
When will be ready the Adobe CF extensions for visual studio code ?
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!
Please let us know the result of an Survey. Thanks.
Thanks for doing this, good to see how the community invests in CFML.
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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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
No - thanks for coordinating it
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.
Check to see if participant is actually using cold fusion right at the start and curtail survey if they are not..
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.
ColdFusion is supposedly on a comeback trajectory. Is there any evidence to support this rumor?
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 🙂
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