Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel talk about “ACF and Lucee roundtable (Part 3 - future CFML)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

"We're gonna be talking about Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee and how they compare and contrast and all cool new features coming in the next five years that we prognosticate future performance. Improvements might be coming CFML engine updates and how you can best approach those confusion security. And we'll wrap up with some other questions about being a good CFML developer and conferences this year.

Show notes 

Where do you see CFML (ACF and Lucee)  in the next 5 years

Future Features we want to add

Features we want to remove

PaaS, FaaS, Lambda

Better CF admin config 

Lucee 6

CFConfig and CommandBox

Engine Packages, cloud and microservices

AWS and other cloud provider reliability, multi-cloud

The persistent parallel thread that reliably run in the background

Event gateway without lots of code

Alt: Scheduled tasks and microservices 

Full Null support

Cfscript syntax ACF vs Lucee

Target tech

Front end - React, Angular, Vue, new one?

Intermittent internet access

Browsers and devices

Modern Eco-system

In some ways the ecosystem is as or more important than the actual language for programmer productivity 

Tools

IDE

Adobe CF VScode extension

Sneak preview session at cfdevweek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTiPoRm0P04

AI/ML features

CFML

IDE

Lucee Page parts feature - speed of line execution

Better error handling - let it run type code - Erlang language

Code coverage, language feature coverage

FusionReactor line execution code tool

In general

Reliability and performance

Auto Scalable

Secure

Modern language features and ecosystem

Backward compatible CFML

Alive!

Learning CFML speed in 1 week 

See roundtable 2

Hiring CF dev vs cross-hire and train

Polyglot programmers

Tech fashion

Dev first vs CIO led PR and marketing

Gartner 

Audience

CF dev

Dev Ops

CIO and CEO 

Also teaching and increasing staff

Reducing dev stress

CFML Engine Updates

New version releases

Security hotfixes

Script your deployments

JSON based config

Docker images

ACF

Lucee

CommandBox ones

Charlie ITB conference pre-conf workshop

Why is it still wise to use CFML

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

What is the next conference you are attending?

Mentioned in this episode

ACF and Lucee roundtable 1

ACF and Lucee roundtable 2

Lucee 6 features episode

Adobe Dev Week 2022 blog post

Language speed comparison - Lucee 2nd fastest - Brad Wood blog

ColdFusion is more modern than you realize - Charlie Arehart Dev Week talk

Implementing third-party CF libraries Gavin Pickin CF Meetup

Adobe VS Code CF code IDE extension

Ben’s blog

Brian Bockhold Dev Week session (Wed July 20, 1430)

“Exploring AWS Java SDK developer features using the Java integration implemented in ColdFusion 2021”

Let it fail code - Erlang language

Code coverage FusionReactor and TestBox

Listen to the Audio

Bio

Charlie Arehart

A veteran server troubleshooter who’s worked in enterprise IT for more than three decades, Charlie Arehart (@carehart) is a longtime community contributor who as an independent consultant provides short-term, remote, on-demand troubleshooting/tuning assistance for organizations of all sizes and experience levels (carehart.org/consulting).

Links

Twitter: https://twitter.com/carehart

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carehart

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carehart

Web http://carehart.org/

Gert Franz

Gert was born in 1967 and lives in Switzerland since 1997. He is one of the key people behind Lucee. Back in the late eighties,