119 State of CF Union Survey 2022 Results In Depth Analysis Part 1 (14 cool ColdFusion, Database and Frameworks insights) with Gavin Pickin

Gavin Pickin talks about “State of CF Union Survey 2022 Results In-Depth Analysis Part 1 (14 cool ColdFusion, Database and Frameworks insights)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light.

"...so far right now, you know, we see 60% of people are using a supported ColdFusion licensed product..."

 

Show notes

What is the State of the CF Union survey

• • When did it start? 2007 as part of CFUnited conference
  • CFers community
  • Why is Survey important for the CF community?

Why do you run it every year?

• • Trends
  • Making CF more Alive - best practices and tools all CFer could be using!

 

CF versions

• https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2022-survey-results-server-environment 
• Adobe CF 2018 is the most popular version, closely followed by Lucee CFML 5.3 and Adobe CF 2021
• Adobe CF (all versions combined) continues to be more popular than Lucee (all versions combined)
• ACF 2021 has gained a lot of users this year
• 60% of people are using a supported ColdFusion licensed product.
• Your (Uncle Sam) ColdFusion needs you to upgrade to the latest version.
• No excuse for not keeping your software up to date.
• Lucee sponsored support.

Server Environment		2022
	64%	836	Overall	Engine
CF 2021	537	152	18.18%	28.31%
CF 2018		177	21.17%	32.96%
CF 2016		94	11.24%	17.50%
CF 11		66	7.89%	12.29%
CF 10		26	3.11%	4.84%
CF 9 or earlier		22	2.63%	4.10%
	36%
Lucee 5.3 or later	262	195	23.33%	74.43%
Lucee 5.2 or 5.1		52	6.22%	19.85%
Lucee 4.x or earlier		13	1.56%	4.96%
Railo 4.x or earlier		2	0.24%	0.76%
BlueDragon		0	0.00%
Other		37	4.43%

 

Environment

• https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2022-survey-results-your-environment 
• Windows still strong,
• Many people do their own DevOps, and they’re more comfortable with a Windows Server
  Linux subsystem
• Chrome is still the strongest OS
• Databases
  • SQL Server is still the most used database, way ahead of MySQL
• About 30% are open-source solutions
  • A lot of them have community editions

Frameworks

• https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2022-survey-results-frameworks-methodology/ 
• Custom/homebrew is the most popular framework, ahead of ColdBox, FW/1 and CFWheels
• Vue.js has moved further ahead of React and Angular for front-end frameworks
• Cool ElsasticSearch option; one new Search coming out soon.
• CMS- the winner is "don't use at all" 
  • The second is custom homegrown CMS
• Mura might’ve dropped because it went commercial
• JavaScript libraries- almost 90$ of CFers use a library of some kind
  • JQuery still number one
• CSS
  • Top CSS library is Bootstrap again
• If you're not using CSS, maybe this year is a good time to pick up a little CSS allows tailwind. To make your apps look more modern and be responsive
• CFC dependency injection
  • Why even use it?
• Which persistence frameworks do you use?
  • Most don't use them
  • What is it exactly?
    • Way to help you store data somewhere, persistently
    • these will help your life, and they'll make it easy to load data, retrieve data search for data, and make you really happy with all that
  • ORM / Hibernate the most familiar one
  • A lot of people love writing SQL
• What testing and mocking frameworks do you use?
  • Why would I even want for those all those people who answered none to this question?
  • What’s the benefit?
  • What were this testing and mocking stuff all these other people are doing?
    • Half the people in ColdFusion aren't testing and the other half are lying about it
  • Selenium is the most used testing framework
• CF Mobile development frameworks
  • For the longest time, the native was native Android;
  • native iOS was a lot higher than in previous years.
  • So now we’re down to basically 4% and 5%.
  • And actually, Ionic is higher, flutter is higher put overs, right at 4.9%, as well, progressive web apps is, you know, probably the leader there.
  • They’ve got to the point where you can choose Chrome or something else inside your apps
  • Half of the people aren’t doing mobile
  • But the half that is 80% of them are doing, basically some version of sort of transpired WebView style
  • A fair number of people these days are running a responsive browser version of our app, and it runs on the phone just fine.
  • And you can save it to the desktop or the phone

Survey asking about health issues,

• People have backache and neck ache
• a lot of developers have all those things
• But the number one thing they listed was stress.
• And, I'm all for let’s get rid of the stress.
• Let’s get rid of the health issues that developers have. Be healthy, happy developers.

Mentioned in this episode

• State of the CF Union Survey, 2022
• State of the CF Union Survey, 2022 Results
• State of the CF Union Survey, 2022 Raffle 
• ITB 2022 Conference
• CF Summit 2022, in Las Vegas
• Lucee CFML
• Adobe ColdFusion 2018
• Adobe ColdFusion 2021
• Modernize Or Die Podcast
• AWS
• Yep browser

Bio

Gavin Pickin

Software Consultant passionate about Building Better Businesses using CFML, JavaScript, VueJS, Docker, Training, Podcasts and sharing all my lessons learned

Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

Gavin started using ColdFusion in 1999 when working for the university of Auckland in New Zealand before moving to California. He has led teams, trained new developers and worked the full stack from graphic design, HTML and CSS JavaScript through ColdFusion MySQL and server administration.

Gavin has a passion for learning and cannot understand why the 9-5ers aren't listening to podcasts while changing diapers, watching video tutorials while cleaning baby bottles and folding clothes, or putting the kids to sleep with soothing phone gap mobile application cookbook recipes.

Links

• Gavin Pickin (@gpickin) / Twitter
• George “Gavin” Pickin | LinkedIn
• ColdBox Zero to MegaHero Training After CF Summit - Oct 5th in Las Vegas
• CFML News Modernize or Die podcast