I was a bit surprised when I came across this post today, and so frustrated by it that I had to write about it.

Read it here: JeremiahX on Coldfusion

In a nutshell, J. J. speaks of his affinity for ColdFusion, and how it is like the best-tasting coffee that everyone loves to hate. I would liken that to the best operating system everyone loves to hate, Windows … if you catch my drift. Those of you that know me know that I am platform agnostic, language agnostic, and altogether technology agnostic. I’ve worked in almost every web development environment and have solid web development chops to be able to speak about what works and what doesn’t.

ColdFusion doesn’t work.

Granted, I haven’t been so incredibly deep in the trenches that I understand all of it’s nuances, standards, techniques. But, who does? What I’m getting at here is that programming is an imaginative thing most of the time. And with ColdFusion I don’t feel I can imagine very far. There’s really only so much you can do with it.

Also, Adobe has continued to shuffle their feet in developing anything new for ColdFusion, and they are really behind the curve. From a business perspective, companies who utilize ColdFusion in their software development will continue to use it, but they will always be fixing problems other languages have fixed years ago.

PHP, on the other hand, is used much more widely that ColdFusion, and for good reason. It’s adoption points to the fact that it has a very small learning curve, has mounds and mounds of support on the Internet, is FREE, is platform independent, and has blazingly fast compilation. And, PHP is as up-to-date as it comes to supporting the newest web technologies and making it easy to develop with. Oh, and did I mention it’s FREE?

And coffee is bad for you, too.