[timsayshey]

It's been a long road to 2.0 with lots detours but we've finally made it! Thanks to an awesome dedicated team and community :)

Lol, and yes, asking if Coldfusion is still a thing is like asking if Java is still a thing. It's a dynamic scripting language on the JVM that gets stuff done. It's not going anywhere. If you had a bad perception of CF many years ago, do yourself a favor and check out Lucee before making any comments, lest you misrepresent the language and speak out of ignorance ;) -- Remember bad code happens in every language

[rbanffy]

> Remember bad code happens in every language

I remember writing a Windows service to reload the CF's DLL every time the number of concurrent connections to ISS exceeded a certain threshold.

That happened, literally, in the past century, but Cold Fusion earned its bad reputation at that time. I was glad when I saw most of the original plumbing being ejected years later.

[bdcravens]

Yeah, CF pre-2001 had an entirely different architecture (when it switched from a static binary format to running atop the JVM ... lol it was a JVM language before that was cool)

[rad_gruchalski]

"from a static binary to a monolithic JVM app"

[clairity]

i still have a soft spot in my heart for coldfusion (and the fusebox framework) and the ease with which you could get a dynamic page up on the web. </cfmemories>

it's remarkable how resilient the dynamic templated web paradigm has been over the years. we keep coming up with new variants, like php, or even ones that run client-side, like react (reminiscent of coldfusion components), or shoehorning it into other languages like java, python and perl.