I assume you mean ColdFusion (it's been a single word since at least 1999). CF has some definite perception issues, but does have a number of features that go against the grain of the thinking about it: several MVC frameworks, ORM, web sockets, multiple open source engines, an abstraction layer atop the JVM, asynchronous programming options, closures, etc. As for "previous era", it's the same age as Ruby, Java, JavaScript, and others. CF's disadvantage isn't the tech so much lacking an ecosystem such as what has sprung up around options like Clojure, node.js, and RoR.