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State of the CF Union 2023 Survey Results 4. – Tools

January 17, 2025 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

Below are the results to date for the 2023 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 part 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

Git
ProjectLocker
Backup file/s manually before editing
Spanz
Fossil
Gogs
Custom Folder Compare
Gitea
perforce
Assembla
Helix (formerly Perforce)
Gogs
Visual SourceSafe
Kaleidoscope (Mac version of Beyond Compare)
AccuRev
VersionRecall

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

Others

Cold Fusion Report Builder
VSCodium actually
Homesite+
ssms
EmEditor
VIM
VIM
BBEdit
Neovim
aptana
BBEdit
VIM
Aptana
Coda
Coda 2
CODA

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

Others

whatever Brave uses
LambdaTest
FireFox Developer Edition

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

Others

Where's Adobe's API Manager?
Jax
TeamCFML REST
TeamCFML REST
Supabase
my team create them in JAVA
No real point to use REST API other than some fool at the coffee shop read it on linkedin
Manual REST conventions as part of our workflow
SupaBase
Appegi
CFCs w/o the rest feature
Supabase

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

Others

JCS
Built-in CF caching
DiiMES
DiiMES
MongoDB Cache Extension
CFWheels, though I guess that leverages Lucee's build-in caching
I often just cache things in persisted CFCs (in application scope)
Homegrown cache based on MongoDB document store
Home-grown, ram-based
Homegrown
home grown
cfstatic
CFWheels cache
Custom
Homegrown

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

Others

Homegrown
GCP
Homegrown
Various
Various
CBQ
CBQ
SupaBase
hazelcast
MSMQ
none
MQTT
custom

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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