[zamalek]

I used CF in my first job more than a decade ago. It's not a terrible language. I'm a bit sketchy on the details (having been more than a decade ago) but I recall creating a custom tag that "magically" created an editor for DB row (which in-turn used a custom tag for editing any column). It didn't run in the browser, but, apart from that, it felt a lot like using React/Angular/Vue/Svelte/what-have-you. I quickly built up a library of custom tags, which worked really well in, what was essentially, a shop that was mass-producing websites.

The awesome thing is that I bashed it out in one week, starting from knowing no CFML at all. It was essentially me and my employer building websites (a 3rd or 4th dealt with IT), and he was successful with my work within one day.

It's dumb, it's boring, it's uninteresting, and those are seemingly features. I love Vue and Svelte with a passion, but it takes more than a day to become successful with those (and far longer to become wildly productive).

All of that being said, I don't care to go back to it.