So I wrote a forum application in BoxLang

Robert shares his experience building DismalThreads, a modern forum application that evolved from his 2022 project renegade-forums. He rewrote it using BoxLang 1.0 and CBWire, a ColdBox module that enables reactive interfaces without JavaScript. He prefers CBWire over frameworks like Vue or React since it uses plain CFML. The site features nested comments, infinite scrolling feeds, notifications, and supports both text and link posts with automatic metadata retrieval.