Sounds like you might not have been around back then. PHP was the thing you used because Cold Fusion Cost $50,000 per server to deploy.
Apart from that, it really was the best of its breed (compared to PHP, classic ASP, Perl CGI, or Java Servlets).
Apart from that, it really was the best of its breed (compared to PHP, classic ASP, Perl CGI, or Java Servlets).
And it turns out to have been the killer.
To bring back ColdFusion, you'd need some substantial useful tools written in it. The way PHP support is buoyed along by WordPress, forum software, photo site software, etc.
It's definitely not "cool" among the startup culture, which seems to drive a lot of the language popularity.