Just wondering if anyone else uses Classic ASP. If so, why do you still use it?
I don't want to turn this question into a classic asp bashing session, it's NOT a dead language despite what a lot of folks think. I prefer to refer to it as "aged" :) Anyways, I know it's not being supported by MS, .NET has supplanted it, it's gone the way of the Dodo bird, yaddy yaddy ya.
Myself personally I use it every day at my job and have no qualms with it. I've built some pretty complicated systems with it, and I always tell people anything you can do in PHP I can do just as well, if not better, in ASP. There are always going to be systems out there that "just work" and have no need to be rewritten. I think ultimately ASP will be associated with such legacy languages as cobal, fortran, perl, etc.
Thoughts?
I haven't used Classic ASP for years. The only issue I have with it is that it's no longer supported by Microsoft. I've just seen too many Classic ASP sites with scary security holes. Other than that I liked it more than PHP. I'm really impressed at PHP's longevity.
.net 4 introduced a framework called WebPages that uses Razor. It is/was really similar to Classic ASP. I really liked it and use that for a few projects.
.net Core 2.0 introducted RazorPages which sort of continues the trend of having a more simplified framework as an alternative to MVC. I'm looking into using that now.
Mike Chilson
Full Stack Developer
I actually own and run a hobby related portal and forum website built entirely in classic ASP for the last 14 years. it has seen many code changes and "tweaks" over the years to keep it modern and exploiting some new technologies. It has over 16K in active registered users and well over a million page views a month. While I mostly code in Rails these days Classic ASP is still a viable tool IMHO.