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In 2002 I realized that I wasn’t the hotshot I thought I was. I bet a lot of people will learn that soon too.

For sure. I really worry about the one-trick ponies that know one front-end framework and have had no shortage of opportunities. (In the early 2000s, I knew a lot of ColdFusion devs who honestly weren't cut out to be programmers, but the ease of the language enabled them to earn king's ransoms ... until the jobs dried up and it became a buyer's market)

Funnily enough, the shop I am in uses Coldfusion and Python, but CF is used on the more important, heavily trafficked apps.

Do you remember the guy teaching AOL server and placing them in jobs?

https://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/aolserver/introduction-1.ht...

After the dotcom bust, people with cash seemed to turn to real estate, but I don’t think that is an option this turn. The real of ‘physical’ is a liability.

Fond memories. My first pure software development job was using that stack at USU circa 2005.

To be fair, Phil Greenspun also ran photo.net and produced a absolutely beautiful coffee-table book along the way.

>> Suppose you're running Perl CGI scripts on Apache. Would AOLserver run 10 times faster? Sure. On the other hand, www.cisco.com manages to sell $1 billion in merchandise annually with Perl CGI scripts. It is always easier and safer to plug in more processor boards than to switch tools.

Things haven't changed.

Don't get me wrong, I think CF is a great language. (I've spoken at CF conferences and run CFUGs) I would just always have options :-)

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