Gert Franz, Charlie Arehart, Ben Nadel, Mark Drew, and Zac Spitzer talk about “Lucee 6” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light.

“Welcome to the podcast. We’re coming here live from CF camp in Munich, Germany. And we are going to be talking about Lucee 6, the new release of Lucee CFML. And we’ve got some amazing experts here. Mark Drew who's done a lot of Lucee coding at distro kid. Then we’ve got Charlie Erehart, the ColdFusion troubleshooting expert giving an independent view on Lucee. Then we’ve got Ben Nadal all the way from New York City. And he's the top blogger among ColdFusion people according to our annual survey, and then we got good friends from Lucee Association, Switzerland, coming up at the end, but not least. And on the other screen, if you're watching on video, we have some of the attendees from Sierra camp when we open the set. Yay, go attendee. And we'll be opening up to audience questions later in the show. So why don't we just start by just going through each of the four panelists, and I'm just want to ask you, what are you most excited about in Lucee 6?”

Show notes

What are you most excited about the Lucee 6 release?

It is released! (after 2019 announcement at CFCamp 2019) and years of covid it is finally released :-) 

Java integration, easier paths, tag islands

Listeners: query, email, HTTP progress etc

Do want we want to do and add to Lucee independent to ACF

CFconfig, container friendly, cloud friendly now

Fast startup (<1 second), warm up containers

Startup with only One Context halves the startup time

Removed old cruft for flash etc (see shrink label in Lucee jira)

Webinfo folder outside the webroot - more secure - smaller and faster

Pete Freitag Fuseless lamda helped on this

Warmenable = 1 to pre-load these folders

Dot CFS files - pure cf script

How is CFCamp?

Lucee 6 New features

Thread debugging

What does “thread debugging” mean?

Switch to Json configuration - Json config (moved from XML)

Reload config at runtime

Future Json 5 support eg comments https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-4583 

Features of Ortus CFconfig built into the Lucee CFML language

ACF can export config to Json too as of ACF 2021

12 factor apps https://12factor.net/ 

some config in environment variables

Eg for production, qa containers

CFtimeout tag

Control how long a section of code runs before forced time out

Raffle Q: How long have each panelist being involved in web devel

Mark 1992 

Charlie 1995 mainframe web dev then CF 1.5

Ben 1999 summer intern CF

Gert 2000 with CF

Michaela 1994 Gopher, HTML, PERL 1997 CF

Raffle Q: What is the oldest domain you registered?

Mark markdrew.com - but no lost it and wants it back

Sold miny.com for much money

Charlie systemanage.com

Ben girls and many other domains

Gert gertfranz.com

Michaela teratech.com 1994

Audience 1995 free domain

Spaces and whitespace in code

Ben use lots

Mark loves spaces

Tabs vs spaces

CFlint on compile to reduce java byte code size

Smaller footprint on disk, less memory, faster startup

Removed unused old Java libraries from default 

Warm up  - expand library images

Performance improvements

DX - Developer experience 

Better error messages

Community driven project

for improving DX

For reporting and fixing issues

How to contribute to Lucee

contributing to the code and docs

Testing the new release

Support contracts to contribute money

Zac works for 80% for Pixl8, 20% for Rasia purely on Lucee 

UX on download page to ask for help

Patreon 

Share about how good Lucee is on your blog, social media

Comment on public forums so the question and answer are google

Dev bottom up, CTO top down (more expensive)

Raffle Q: What is older: CF, PHP,