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.
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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
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 |
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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.
