11 engineers on Hacker News describe using ColdFusion first-hand: 2 endorse it, 2 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“ColdFusion was a great product for its time. My employer in the early 2000s had it as our default preferred language”
mixed · production · Mountain_Skies · 2023-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the server ran ColdFusion in the early years but we switched to Railo (later Lucee) pretty much as soon as it was an option.”
regret · production · simondotau · 2023-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I liked ColdFusion for what it was, but I also don't miss it. The spaghetti code I had to fix is what I remember most.”
regret · production · SpaceL10n · 2023-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I could knock out a CF based web app much faster than I can today with C# ASP.NET.”
endorse · production · brixon · 2017-10-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using CF for 10 years, Java for 5. CF is a great bridge from the functionality and performance of Java”
endorse · production · 10 yr · jalpino · 2010-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We just recently use Claude Code to port an old Coldfusion site to Java Spring and it went amazingly well.”
neutral · production · linsomniac · 2026-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when I had to work on a legacy code base using Adobe ColdFusion”
neutral · production · chilldsgn · 2024-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I actually helped the company migrate away from Adobe ColdFusion to Lucee due to a chance in Adobe's licensing.”
neutral · production · robert_g · 2020-06-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the ColdFusion job I had just ended and the job I had before that was in Visual FoxPro”
neutral · production · fringedgentian · 2015-08-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“compatibility with the framework the college has been using for over a decade (Adobe ColdFusion)”
neutral · production · rm_-rf_slash · 2015-07-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“194 of them are written in PHP (1 is Java, 2 are .NET, 1 Ruby, 2 Coldfusion)”
neutral · production · byoung2 · 2010-07-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?