BoxLang vs the world

It's easy to think that BoxLang is simply another Adobe ColdFusion clone, but it's so much more than that. While BoxLang for sure can run your CFML code, it contains a variety of architectural and language spec contstructs that typical ColdFusion development hasn't seen before.


There's a new player in JVM-town and BoxLang has entered the scene.

It's easy to think that BoxLang is simply another Adobe ColdFusion clone, but it's so much more than that. While BoxLang for sure can run your CFML code, it contains a variety of architectural and language spec contstructs that typical ColdFusion development hasn't seen before.

Let's spend some time and look at the language feature itself and how they compare against some of the more established players out there: JavaScript &TypeScript, Kotlin, Scala, Ruby and maybe even good, plain old Java. What's on offer from BoxLang when it comes to being more than a replacement or alternative for ACF or Lucee?

Join the battle of languages and find out!