I’ve just about had it with the blog posts, articles, and Twitter comments about the death of ColdFusion – all from those who have never even read up on it, let alone used it. Aral Balkin’s ignorant blog post about ColdFusion back in January was uninformed, and was quickly attacked with the full wrath of the ColdFusion community. Numerous people took issue with his lack of knowledge about the current iteration of, and future plans for CF.

Many of his criticisms were resolved 8 years ago. Also interesting to note is the fact that there are almost 100 comments to date, and the author has yet to back up his criticism.

Let me step back for a minute here. While ColdFusion is currently my preferred language for RIA development, I am not hanging my hat on the language, and neither are most of the people I know in the CF community. I make a lot of time to learn other languages. I’m currently knee deep in learning Python/Django and try to keep up with PHP as well. Learning new languages benefits you by broadening your abilities with something new, as well as supplementing your skills in your old language.

The more I learn about other languages, the more I believe that there is very little that CF can not do well. I’ve read these posts about ColdFusion’s death before. We’ve been reading them for years. The criticism of the language does not bother me – that is necessary for improvements to happen. What bugs me is that the blog posts about the death of CF are always by someone who does not know the language, and it gets read by people who are equally ignorant about the language, but have the ability to make decisions about choice of platform.