Ask HN: Why no Coldfusion love?

Re:Ask HN: Why no Coldfusion love? by macarthy12 on Saturday January 24, 2015 @10:01AM (#8939727)

I was heavily involved with CF back in the beginning version < 1, when it was an Allaire product, and at the time is had some good points, comparing it to perl, c or ASP of the time. But it has been blown away in nearly every segment but other languages and frameworks. Only think it might be better at is integration with flash, which no should care about...

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Re:Ask HN: Why no Coldfusion love? by aepearson on Saturday January 24, 2015 @11:59AM (#8940111)

I'm curious about which bits have been "blown away" compared to other languages and frameworks.

I've done testing versus PHP for basically every sort of function related to web development (for my workflow) and can't think of an instance where one was better over the other in terms of speed...however CFML always won out in terms ease-of-coding (example: CURL -vs- cfhttp, db queries, REST API development, XML Parsing, etc.)

I can't say I've ever used Flash for anything on the web ever. I think it's nice that CF makes it easy, real easy, but I have never needed to use flash for anything.

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Re:Ask HN: Why no Coldfusion love? by bdw429s on Saturday January 24, 2015 @10:21AM (#8939774)

Can you be more specific about the segments where CF has been "blown away"? I think it's more modern than most people realize, but it's hard to respond to a criticism that vague :)

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