It's actually not as bad as that anymore. Adobe CF has traditionally been pretty poor (though it's better these days) but there are great alternatives now (Railo is a top notch open source alternative).
I wouldn't ever expect to convince anyone who had ever worked on an old CF site to move back to CF ever again (believe me, I'm still scarred from it) but it's actually pretty good these days (Railo, that is).
My experience isn't limited either; Rails, Django, Flask, .Net (Umbraco), CodeIgniter, Drupal to name a few. They all have their warts. I hate to say it but in my experience Railo (CF) is way more performant than any of them.
I wouldn't ever expect to convince anyone who had ever worked on an old CF site to move back to CF ever again (believe me, I'm still scarred from it) but it's actually pretty good these days (Railo, that is).
My experience isn't limited either; Rails, Django, Flask, .Net (Umbraco), CodeIgniter, Drupal to name a few. They all have their warts. I hate to say it but in my experience Railo (CF) is way more performant than any of them.