Future of ColdFusion

ColdFusion does seem to be getting less popular, and you have two problems, one in yourself and one in potential employers. Programming should be language-independent. The particular language you use is merely the expression of your program. Some techniques are not easily transferable among languages, of course, and they are coding rather than programming techniques; but the underlying logical structures are the same. Computers don't forget what you have just told them, so you can comfortably do the equivalent of distinguishing Spanish ser and estar in English. So, you should think of applications as logical problems first, implementation coming next. Recruiters should understand that a good programmer is machine- and language-independent,and I do not know how to persuade them of this. I have been refused jobs on the theory that IBM Cobol is different from other Cobol, so a VB job when you know only CF requires persuasion. But start with yourself: you do not stick to one natural language for recreational reading, and you should not tie yourself to one programming langauge for work.