What I always find most annoying about this topic when it comes up is the basis on what such claims are made, usually the person saying ColdFusion is dead/dying has absolutely no evidence or research to back this up, it is just their own opinion.
In order to have basis for such a claim you would need to be working in a business that deals with ColdFusion in such a way that you are aware of the number of people using ColdFusion and new customers enquiring about ColdFusion. Just being a developer and using cf-talk doesn't really fall into that category. As I run a cfcommunity and work for a cf hosting co I do see how many new users/customers come and go from those 2 perspectives, so I can give some real world feedback on that and what I can say is that things are pretty quiet on both fronts, not much new user activity, so things are pretty stagnant. We have also noticed recently that quite a few hosts are dropping support for CF as we have been getting a lot of their cast off's. We have also noticed an increased number of customers migrating to PHP, which mainly seems to be down to they have been told by someone else that CF is dead or because they wanted to use Wordpress. Sure the community seems a bit dead these days, but this in itself does not speak for ColdFusion. It could simply mean there are not many new developers coming into the world of CF or those that are have not joined CF-TALK or do not want to because they don't like communities. Many folks don't join lists like this because they don't want to get attacked by trolls and flame baiter's and shot down by so called GURU's for the way they code. If I was a newbie to CF and joined this list, i'd probably un-subscribe a week later and I bet a lot of the old members have gone for the same reasons. As for there being no resources for newbies, here are a few I know off the top of my head. 1. livedocs.adobe.com Plenty of good stuff right here in the docs for newbies 2. www.easycfm.com 3. The Adobe CF forums 4. www.cfmldeveloper.com 5. www.sitepoint.com - e.g http://www.sitepoint.com/cold-fusion-tutorial/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:348635 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
