Why does everyone hate Adobe Coldfusion?

Question

everyone seems to think this is the worst language for web development, I am a Web developer and its my language of choice.

Answer 1

I have been using it for about 8 years myself and I love it but it does get a bad rep. I think people take the stance 'it costs money' a lot when it comes to CF but Windows also costs money which is needed to run ASP and .NET stuff. People don't realize that there is a fully functional dev version and that Blue Dragon is a free version you can run on your server. I have worked with many of the other web dev languages and find it the easiest to learn and the quickest to develop in. I believe a lot of people that seem to have problems with it have probably never used it before.

Found this interesting article the other day about how myspace is writen in ColdFusion markup and runs on .NET framework using Blue Dragon.

http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?postid=397

The most visited site in the nation runs on ColdFusion language (although not the server)- that is pretty cool.

Answer 2

As a web developer it seems for you Coldfusion pretty easy but for someone who occasionaly develop a web site it might be a little bit difficult and therefore they think it is worst language from another hand Coldfusion
Language is not common like PHP or ASP.

Answer 3

I had thought coldfusion was Macromedia.
Anyhow don't hate it,
just not my fav.
I prefer jsp, and servlets,
or asp.net.
Like asp.net because it really does a good job of separating code from html

Answer 4

Costs real money to put it on a webserver - and so it somewhat rare on shared hosting and virtual servers..

Asp.net, psp, perl and even things like java, python and ruby on rails are hot to go on many webservers at no extra cost.