Jon Hartmann

Just for the record, I don't think CF is a dead language at all. Just because a particular job listing site had only a selection of jobs (still over 2,000 though!) in no way means that the language is dying. Far from it. As most CF developers might know, the interest in the language and numbers of CF developers is increasing.

Perhaps it's the opposite. We're too good at our jobs for there to be vacancies? :)

The release of CF 9 (Centaur) and it's amazing new features and tie-ins with Flex (amongst other things) will only go to further increase the marketability of ColdFusion as a coding language. Couple that with open-source CFML alternatives, an ever-expanding community AND a firmly written development plan currently up to CF11, this indicates completely the opposite.

I agree that the research for the article was poor, and yes, if Rails had less job listings...

We all know the truth though.

I think Rails will slip into decline. People are already referring to the die hard Rails developers as "clingers"!!

People are realising that this is a toy framework that views the world in a very simplistic way. That means to write a decent application you're continually fighting against Rails and what it wants to do.

The hype dust has settled and at last it's possible to see Rails for what it is. Still not supporting internationalization properly. Offering flawed pluralizations. Twitter replaced large chunks of their back-end queueing system with Scala because Rails just doesn't cut the mustard.

Java Enterprise Edition by contrast is a well designed, mature, scalable framework and makes Rails look like Fisher Price material.