ColdFusion Builder Reviews & Product Details

ColdFusion's ability to connect to databases and query them is definitely one of its greatest features to this day.

Features aside, it's always been a fairly simple language and environment to jump right into and start churning away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When considering its caretaker, Adobe, it lacks some necessary language development to meet what exists in other langs of the modern dev world.

Bugs that are stalling and/or sensible additions/fixes drag for sometimes years (YEARS!!!).

Save a few awesome individuals, much of the Adobe team in near completely silent to the community or comes off as quite disconnected from the very language and platform they are building.

These things harm ColdFusion as a product. Not just a language platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't think I have a single positive thing to say about working with CFML. It's literally pain from the moment you begin until the moment you free yourself from its evil hold on slow moving businesses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Everything. Starting with the fact that there are two syntax's that are not equal. It's a half assed version of the worst parts of javascript and the worst parts of xml ideology. It's awful for modern applications. It's difficult to learn. It's horrible to use on a Mac. Or any *nix. It encourages anti-pattern after anti-pattern. The community is awful. I mean awful. Anyone who was good moved on years ago. Anyone still using it is either forced to, or hasn't bothered to look out the window in a while. There's very little help available. I had to use OpenBD which is an open source CFML implementation, which only further complicated learning by being ever so slightly undocumentedly different. Everyday of writing it was a maddening endeavor. I've used a lot of languages, on a lot of platforms, compiled and script, and none are as frustrating as CFML, at least, OpenBD's version of it. Using CFML today is like using a pair of scissors to mow your lawn and watching all your neighbors use riding lawnmowers. I'd recommend literally anything else if you are starting a new project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ColdFusion is an easy to use scripting language that still competes in the dynamic, web application space. Often dismissed as an "also ran", ColdFusion is a platform that is still in use on many high traffic websites, and also supports real time credit card transactions and e-commerce. In my more than twenty years using this excellent product, I have yet to find a problem I couldn't solve with it. I have written website scraping apps for currency conversion, a shopping cart, and many data transformation applications. Still a very worthy investment and still a contender. Love it!!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing I dislike about ColdFusion except finding a host is not as simple as finding say, a PHP capable host or a host that supports MySQL. It's still a niche. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CFML has definitively nice syntax that blends easy with HTML when working on views. Power of java reachable with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cfscript not well documented and not consistent with cfml. I do not like Front end components. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

* Ease of learning

* Plays well with all the systems and languages

* Support for PDF, JSON, XML out of the box Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

* Expensive

* Lack of thriving community/ jobs

* Less product support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rapid development of mobile applications for in-house deployment. Easy to setup and deploy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Took a bit to get used to it, was difficult to find some of the menus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.