I do get concerned when I see things like this and...
# cfml-generalb
Brian
08/29/2022, 12:29 PMI do get concerned when I see things like this and CFML isn't even listed. https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2022
Brian
08/29/2022, 12:31 PMGranted, it also lists HTML and SQL as programming languages...
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Dave Merrill
08/29/2022, 1:29 PMHow many CF devs do you know who are IEEE members? Seems like a somewhat different slice of the professional dev world.
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Brian
08/29/2022, 1:31 PMMaybe we should do a poll? 🙂 A valid point, though. I didn't look at their methodology. However, the same thing applies to other similar polls from other groups. Have you seen any with CFML listed?
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Adam Cameron
08/29/2022, 1:43 PM
I do get concerned when I see things like this and CFML isn't even listed.2008 called and they want their concern back.
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Dave Merrill
08/29/2022, 2:07 PMDoesn't show on the StackOverflow survey either.
I've still been doing CF professionally since decades.
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jakobward
08/29/2022, 2:14 PMThe author is an experimental physicist working as an editor. Maybe he should write about something else.
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Adam Cameron
08/29/2022, 2:45 PM
Nono, @jakobward. The author is reporting industry statistics. Industry statistics don't care about your feelings (Jesus I just paraphrased - #triggerWarning - Ben Shapiro).
CFML has been largely a "maintenance mode" language for well over a decade. As far as I can tell, the only ppl using it still are employees of companies that didn't think to move off it before their investment in it got prohibitively large, and devs who - likewise - didn't watch the ship sail away and over the horizon.
There are still jobs in it. But in the same way there are jobs in COBOL.
It's not going anywhere, but that statement is accurate in more than one way.
Y'all need to be realistic about where CFML sits on the industry's "tech radar" (nowhere).
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instinct
08/30/2022, 8:18 AMinstinct
08/30/2022, 8:19 AMThat's their methodology ^. Also, from that page:
We then filtered out languages that had a very low number of search results, and followed that by going through the remaining entries by hand to narrow them down to the most interesting
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Brian
08/30/2022, 12:08 PMYeah, that last bit...
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Daniel Mejia
08/30/2022, 3:53 PMYeah I’ve been thinking about building all new stuff with C# since there is a GIS web dev department in the company. Maybe in 3-5 years our departments can work together or at least cross over for job opportunities.
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Adam Cameron
08/30/2022, 4:09 PM
It'd be great to be able to pick-up another language on the job!
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Evil Ware
08/31/2022, 6:33 PMI have to laugh at this. Every time someone publishes (here are the top X IT programming languages) and then all the lemmings go off and learn said languages, they only make it easier to demand more money for the CFML skillset, and they create the opportunity to WOW protective companies with, here is your custom application prototype in literally a few weeks (not months or years in some language cases)
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paul
09/01/2022, 11:55 PMIt also depends on the country, no CFML jobs in AUS ( or extremely few )
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Umair Khan
09/21/2022, 11:25 PMharsh reality when I told to my developer friends then they also don't know about it