CFML - The Red-Headed Step Child....AGAIN!

Posted At : September 12, 2006 11:01 AM | Posted By : Rey Bango
Related Categories: Adobe,ColdFusion

So O'reilly published an article that lists the languages that are most commonly used in Ajax development, from most used to least.

Languages used in Ajax development

And while I'm not entirely shocked, CFML was again left out of the comparison. It seems that ColdFusion/CFML is ALWAYS left out of these comparisons. What the heck man! CFML is still a widely used language which is on par with any of the ones listed in the article. It really frustrates me to see CFML relegated to an after-thought by the press. So, what can we do to change this perception? What can Adobe do about? With the money and marketing position that Adobe holds, you would figure that they could influence things a bit.

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Interestingly, development is evenly split when it comes to platforms for deploying AJAX-based server applications, with 52.1 percent saying they’ll use Java or J2EE, and 51.9 percent saying Microsoft’s ASP.NET or Atlas–a statistical tie. An additional 19.7 percent are using or considering Macromedia Flash, 9.8 percent Ruby on Rails, and 5.5 percent ColdFusion.

How was CFML left out?

# Posted By Sean Coyne | 9/12/06 12:12 PM

Sean, thanks for catching that. I looked at the chart and not the fine print!

Rey...

# Posted By Rey Bango | 9/12/06 12:20 PM

Hey Rey,

Here are 2 more :(

-- Dave Carabetta blogged yeterday about "Adobe Co-Publishing Agreement With O'Reilly Excludes ColdFusion"
http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/9/14/ado...

-- Today EWeek.com posted an article "10 Programming Languages You Should Learn Right Now"
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2016415,00.as...

fyi ... the EWeek article listed "Job availabilities" for each language off of Dice.com. At the time of this post, on Dice.com there are 352 ColdFusion job listings, and 313 for Cold Fusion (geez, it was November 1998 that the blank space in the name was dropped, but still almost 8 years later almost half of all CF jobs are still listed under the product's name as of version 3.) Still, even with a combined 665 listings, Ruby is the only one of the 10 languages listed in the EWeek article that CF is currently beating on the open job listings measure. Whatever that means :-)

g

# Posted By greg h | 9/15/06 11:01 PM

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