alright, tree-sitter and co are officially not helping with tree-sitter-cfml

That's a bit of a bummer.

Yeah, and the ortus guys aren't interested in collaborating on it

Sure but you do have an entire forum here. Do you know what needs to be done? That is: Can you ask for volunteers to help with, something like: Using line XXX as an example Do THAT for every reserved word. Using LLL as an example Do THAT for every BIF

Not quite at that point, more of that dialect parsing is not yet complete, and every time you add a new rule, it breaks something else