Posted by ravenical 12/20/2025
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_ColdFusion
What surprised me is that when I went to look at the Wikipedia page for CF, apparently its latest release was this year! I haven’t heard anybody mention it in a very long time.
Also longtime internet celebrity and occasional HN poster Pud built the wildly successful Distrokid service with it.
Definitely a little talked about language, but it does get some use.
db-{table}-{column}-where-{field}-{value}-limit-{n}-orderby-{field}-{asc|desc}
db-users →
SELECT * FROM users
db-users-name →
SELECT name FROM users
db-users-where-id-1 →
SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = 1
db-posts-title-limit-10 →
SELECT title FROM posts LIMIT 10
db-products-orderby-price-desc →
SELECT * FROM products ORDER BY price DESC
/jk. Cool project even if I wouldn’t touch this with a pole.
The same can be applied to jokes. Almost no one recognizes them :)
So authors had to write it at the bottom of the page.
Everyday we stray further from the simplicity god.
The README also says "License: MIT - Do whatever you want with it (except deploy to production )"
It's that perfect level of absurdity that captures so much of the terrible complexity that often happens.
”I’m doing my part!”