Great CPAN modules released last week
niceperl.blogspot.com80 points by peateasea 6 months ago
80 points by peateasea 6 months ago
There was a solid talk on Modern Web Development with Perl in August.
What a blast from the past - the CGI library is still receiving some love...
I found myself working on a CGI script just last week. Last year I was asked to patch a production CMS that was just a giant collection of CGI scripts.
This stuff is still out there and when it's done well, it "just works". I'm not saying CGI is the future, but I did find it refreshing to edit a script and then have the change immediately available without waiting for some daemon to restart/reload.
Whats important, its only 'love' a.k.a. no major API change twice a year, as in many of those 'modern' languages.
And its no past for me !-)
When I installed it with Macports recently it gave me a warning that CGI.pm is now in maintenance mode and should not be used for new projects. I get the nostalgia value but Dancer and Mojolicious are surely better alternatives?
It would be unusual to be doing new work in CGI, but I was looking at it recently because that was presented as an easy option for writing a cPanel plugin. At the very least, it's good to know that security fixes will still be applied to CGI.pm if they're needed.
I work for a very large well-known media company and can say that we have a decent amount of mission critical code that’s written in Perl that still just works and is actively being enhanced.
Interesting that one of the modules is a statically typed perl dialect(?)
I cut my teeth on Perl in 2000 but a decade later Ruby gave me the best bits of Perl plus the amazing Rails framework. The deal-breaker with Perl was having to compile CPAN modules. With something like Moose which has a huge list of dependencies it took forever.
Moose is a big hammer. Moo can do a lot of what Moose can do, with very few dependencies.
Perl lives!