I’m a little confused, you went a bit everywhere there Charlie.
On Price:
Boxlang is not free, and at this stage it is unclear which extensions are ‘premium’ in the future.
That said I’d have to invest in licences for 200 instances, in which they would be used for 5 minutes minimum, possibly never depending on pressure on the server cluster.
So yeah, it’s right up there with ACF, ridiculous for SaaS scenarios.
On (my take which means nothing) on Ortus and cfml:
I’m sure Ortus will be invested in cfml for the near future, or until all their products are moved to java or bx platform at least. I can’t see the investment in the cfml ecosystem being thrown away sometime soon, but you cant say never also. It’s not for me to speak on their behalf.
On my business (and the TeamCFML framework @ v52)
Let’s keep it simple, lucee is the only cfml engine I trust for my business to succeed right now. That’s not a debate, it’s a cold hard truth. Our framework is also exclusively lucee for now, but looking at expanding to boxlang. (zero acf support again, that ship has sailed, dont get me wrong ACF is a premium product with some great unique features, just prohibitively expensive) )
I love boxlang is here, it stirs up the community and opens minds to ‘what should be in a product’. Like i did with ACF, people will go to the market and see what product fits on multiple levels.
I’d love to see every lucee cfml dev put $10 a month in the kitty, it’s nothing compared to what you earn and keeps innovation going. Many do, but if we ALL did, then we’d have more money to pay more internal devs.
In 2025 there should be literally hundreds of extensions for lucee. Time me and the rest of us got our act together and delivered back more often.