ryantxr

A friend sent me a link to his new site.  I was surprised that it was done with ColdFusion. 

I'm not against ColdFusion.  I don't really care what anyone uses to build their web applications.  If it works and provides value, then I'm all for it.  But the use of ColdFusion for this new site struck me as odd.  I made a comment on Twitter asking if anyone else was surprised new sites were being built with ColdFusion.  I look at many sites all the time.  And as much as it is possible to tell, I don't see much ColdFusion.  None of the developers I know do CF. 

Here are some responses I got.

@ryantxr it's just you ;) There are hundred+ reasons to use ColdFusion today: http://bit.ly/a7f5ej

The above was the first response.  The link is to an article written by an Adobe evangelist touting the total cost of ownership of ColdFusion. It isn't very credible given that it is from Adobe.  And it didn't give 100 reasons.  There was a chart showing

@ryantxr #coldfusion is alive and growing strong. Recent versions boast incredible concise features that other languages can't touch!

Someone has been drinking too much of the koolaid.  This comes across almost as religious fervor.

@ryantxr So because you haven't seen why, there can't be a reason that cf is better than the rest? :) http://ow.ly/1qQI2A

It seems to me that this person felt I was attacking ColdFusion or somehow saying that other technologies were better. I have no idea.  I have never used ColdFusion.

I was not trying to attack CF.  It might be the best thing around.  That is not the point.  I had not seen ColdFusion show up on my radar for a while.  I was surprised when I saw it and I reached out to my circle to see if anyone knew more.  What I got back were the responses above from people I didn't even know.  What they don't realize is that their responses don't help their cause.  That they even have a cause is disturbing.