Below are the results to date for the 2023 State of the CF Union survey. This is the fifth part of the Survey, about Your programming background and where you work.
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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
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5. Your programming background
23. How many years have you used CFML? (Check one)
24. How many years have you used OO? (Check one)
25. Other languages/environments you use? (Check all that apply)
Others
| Dart, TypeScript |
| Rust, C |
| Visual FoxPro |
| Xojo |
| Rust |
| We use graphql-java integrated with Lucee and some microservices in Node js |
| Xojo |
| typescript, scala |
| Elixir |
| Esri Arcade |
| JavaScript often, PHP/Python rarely. |
| Swift |
| Typescript |
| C |
| VBA |
| Supabase |
| Dart |
| TypeScript |
| Rust |
| TypeScript |
| VBS |
| Thanks for the MOVA bump, appriciated. |
| C |
26. How many CF developers at your organization? (Check one)
Others
| 0.79 |
| 50+ |
| maybe 200, maybe zero |
27. How many total employees at your organization? (Check one)
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.
