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.
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!”
-Dr. Ian Malcolm
You can't make this up.
MIT - Do whatever you want with it (except deploy to production )
Weird stuff, seems to be vibe-coded using cursor and also the github issues are full of spam.
The same can be applied to jokes. Almost no one recognizes them :)
So authors had to write it at the bottom of the page.
a Node.JS server might use SQL directly or call out to a GraphQL API, but I literally don't think it's possible to let client-side JavaScript (safely) call a SQL database server directly.
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.
> For fun only - don't use in production!
This is a brilliantly clever homage to the WTF/Minute concept as proxy for code quality metrics and therefore is used among others as an indicator for maintainability where a high count inevitably leads to frustration and bugs.
Hilariously and awesomely executed.
sixtyj•1mo ago