Just a Brillohëd

In general, I don’t care about the differences between server languages that so many have a personal beef with. The vitriol against CF is extremely virulent in some areas, but whatever, it serves its purpose well. It was also my first real markup language after HTML back when I was in college (1998, CF 3.0).

Having been exposed to CF for about almost 10 years now, and PHP for 5 years (my other major development platform) I’ve been able to really notice certain perks or shortcomings with CF when compared.

1. Meh: CFWRITE doesn’t allow you to overwrite a file’s content; you can either append or destroy/create the file again, with the latter being very inefficient. This is most troublesome.
2. Yay: CFIMAGE, from version 8 on, has built-in CAPTCHA which, if you’ve ever tried to encode it in PHP, is worlds easier. More can be found here.