State of the CF Union 2023 Survey Results 8. – Wrap up

Thank you so much for doing this survey!!!

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Would love a copy of this survey for the list of tools and options so we can explore and improve our installation and use.

I had lots of problems to migrate my apps from adobe CF to coldBox/lucee. the userguides are often not up to date … but i get throuh it 😉
my biggest luck so far is chatGPT … it helps me a lot with all topics like security, linux lock down, mariadb problems and lucee or coldbox/commandbox … did you test it?

Adobe MUST fix the licensing issues and pricing or else we'll be moving to Lucee.

Thanks for running these every year! 🙂

Thank you for doing this year after year

I hate to say it. But I thing CF is finally gone. No one is hiring for it. No jobs exist. It's finally gone. It's so sad.

"ColdFusion is dying" (selected in survey) is manager opinion only, not mine.

Thanks for doing this every year!!!!!!!!!

Keep up the good CF work

I have used CF since it was originally released, I love it and continue to advocate for it. That being said, it has become increasingly difficult to find CF shops that are not in the process of or considering migrating away from CF. I personally blame Adobe for not initially supporting CF more when it was first acquired by them. Even though they seem to have invested in it more in recent years, I feel like it was too little too late. I appreciate the open source CFML engine communities efforts and I am moving in that direction with my legacy systems, but my current organization will not support developing any new solutions in CF, despite my advocacy.

I love CF and will always look forward to new features. To be very very honest, CF has done so much for me and my company. From the speed of our API's to the security and limitless customization we can make so quickly compared to other technologies and frameworks. We have not had to refactor and are able to make business logic just work. I think the only thing I can hope for is better AJAX and front end integration or tools. Something that works well with popular front end frameworks like bootstrap or angular for example. Other than that, I can't say enough about CF.

Adobe should give CF to the world. Make money but charge way less

Lucee/CFML still is a powerhouse in the RAD space for those who know how to use it. It has a low "complexity factor" compared to other platforms regarding version upgrades and support. I recently came across a 15+ year-old code base running happily in a production environment serving thousands of users. It requires no maintenance whatsoever and consumes very few resources. This is a joy to see, but I have lost all hope to see CFML return to its heyday. Adobe made a mess of it by not releasing it into the public domain as an open-source initiative. Typical Adobe. Lucee has given us a genuine alternative - even surpassing the original. Well done. CFML - code for the masses.

We have different technology stacks. I just checked the options related to CF. The survey could make that a little clearer whether it refers to the whole technology stack of a company or not.

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Yes - Where the Hell is cfchart, cfform, cfgrid, cfresponsive, all the tags should be updated so one can just use ColdFusion for everything and kick ass like we did in the 90's and 2000's etc.

Thanks to TeraTech and others for carrying on this wonderful tradition with the CF Community. Keep up the great work!

thanks for doing this every year

maybe a stepper (1-2-3) vs previous/next. It's more of a UX thing or TABS vs previous - next. Maybe questions about what are the biggest hurdles in using CF in your organization, to which I would respond" I am managed by someone outside the US whose sole goal is to feed into the make work society. Make work, is a term used for useless projects that take erroneous amounts of time to complete as the whole goal is never to actually complete the project. Coldfusion in my case is a great example of where I(Not a programmer) write programs to solve internal problems that entire teams of "Programmers" can not solve with large sums of resources (personnel, cash, support). Coldfusion beat out the programming teams low code solution as the Proof of concept was built in a week, cost nothing, and worked without bugs. The low code team is over a year in the making, and still can not do what the proof of concept did, but it was chosen as management a) hates the idea that a non-programmer crapped out a solution in a day, and that it cost NOTHING. It is more of a marketing issue as if our suppliers heard that we can create solutions in days not years, WHY would they need to buy services for years from us.

Thanks for doing this, Michaela! 👍

THanks for doing these surveys. Very interesting data.

All seem to be good

ColdFusion Rocks!