Yes, Coldfusion is “Unpopular”. No, I don’t care

Take a gander at this worthless article by TechRepublic, citing the “Death of Ruby”:

There it is again – popularity, that moronic metric only useful in blog posts and line graphs. I had some interesting feedback on my Five Reasons to Learn CF in 2019 post from a developer who told me:

For reference, here is that Google Trends graph of “Coldfusion” searches from 2004-present which he was referring to:

My response was to link to the same Google Trends graph for HTML over the same time period. Node is an excellent language to learn, and is very powerful thanks to its immense popularity and large package ecosystem – but just remember that without the ecosystem, Node as a language would be a footnote in the annals of history.

Source: dev.to