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Adobe ColdFusion vs Geany: What are the differences?
Adobe ColdFusion: Adobe ColdFusion is a commercial rapid web application development platform. Adobe ColdFusion is a commercial rapid web application development platform created by J. J. Allaire in 1995.1 ColdFusion was originally designed to make it easier to connect simple HTML pages to a database. By version 2 (1996), it became a full platform that included an IDE in addition to a full scripting language; Geany: Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows. Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME - Geany only requires the GTK2 runtime libraries.
Adobe ColdFusion and Geany belong to "Integrated Development Environment" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Adobe ColdFusion are:
- Simplified database access
- Client and server cache management
- Client-side code generation, especially for form widgets and validation
On the other hand, Geany provides the following key features:
- syntax highlighting
- code completion
- auto completion of often used constructs like if, for and while
Pros of Adobe ColdFusion
Pros of Geany
- Lightweight5
- Open-source5
- Plug-ins4
- Extensive file-type support2
- Easily changeable2
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Cons of Adobe ColdFusion
- Cost2
Cons of Geany
- Less pupular than VS1
