ASP vs ColdFusion

[Kinl]

Ok, I've read some older posts about this subject (the posts are well over a year old) and I want to see what every one thinks the better choice is.

Currently I run a webserver which gets close to a million hits a day (or around 10,000 + unique visitors a day).

WE use ASP pages for alot of our dynamic content and I have been reading and also hearing that Cold Fusion is faster, but then as I read along they seem to be about 50/50 in the running for the 'better' product.

I'm trying to figure out which one to use...

Suggesstions? Comments? Thanx !

-shorty

 

[tleish]

I'm not sure if you've allready read this sie by side comparison of ASP and ColdFusion, it was done a year ago and was on ColdFusion 4.0, but it has some interesting stuff.

http://www.cfm-resources.com/asp_vs_cf.cfm

- tleish

 

[GunJack]

Hey Kinl,

I do a lot more CF coding that ASP coding but having learned CF first, I find that ASP is much more complicated. Doing things such as querying a database require that you create a recordset, populate it, and then loop through it while manually incrementing the row. In CF, it's a simple as a <cfquery> tag and <cfoutput> loop. Another downside to ASP is that it tends to require more add-in components to do things that are built into CF. An example is <cfmail> which allows you to send a mail message. This common functionality is missing from ASP and requires that you have Cdonts or some other mail component installed. If I remember correctly, ASP also doesn't have any built-in mechanism for capturing uploaded files such as the <cffile> tag. This means that code written in ASP will be less portable since it is coded against specific add-in components.

All in all, they can both do very comparable tasks at what I would guess is comparable speeds but I think you'll have a much quicker development cycle with CF than ASP.

One downside to CF is the fact that Macromedia has taken over Allaire and I've had nothing but bad experiences with them since the acquisition. I will not be purchasing any future products from them past v. 5.0 because of their poor customer service.

Good luck,
GJ

 

[Silvano]

you have to know one thing here: a lot of members of this forum use coldfusion simply becouse it is not miscosoft's product; thus, this might not be the most fair place to ask such questions

I like asp and cf; I find asp very powerful but with a lot of microsoft-type flukes and &quot;I-wanna-be-difficult-attitude&quot;; cf is very friendly, fast and closely connected with databases programming, and somewhat older then asp therefore, more experienced Sylvano
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