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you know there are several mature mvc frameworks already right? catalyst for example..

Yea I'm aware of catalyst but havent really spent any time with perl as of late. A lot of web development that I do is with ruby/sinatra which is the kind of framework I enjoy working with. Its just nice to see new development still going on for perl in this fashion.

you know there's lots of new development going on for perl aside from Mojolicious, right? :)

I know of the perl 6 development. I've not really seen anything else get noticed. Anything noteworthy to mention here?

Oh man, far too much to list in a post.

Just for starters though: perl 5.12 language features, Moose, Plack, perlbrew, Task::Kensho, the Modern Perl and Enlightened Perl movements, the Padre IDE, Strawberry Perl. That's maybe 0.0001% of what's going on.

I don't know about Perls core, but CPAN is a hotbed of new development and has been for years. Just look at the new module stream on twitter:

https://twitter.com/cpan_new

I bet there's a tonne more work going into Perl modules than Ruby gems...

You mentioned Sinatra? On my todo list is to look at Dancer, which seems to have started as a clone of Sinatra.

Edit: I might add that you could describe the situation as that parts of Perl 6 has been "backported" to Perl 5. Moose seems to take over the Perl world, like testing did a decade ago. The fun part is the extensibility of the language.

I believe Mojolicious is by the same author as Catalyst.

sri was the founder of the Catalyst project, but was later asked to step down from that role by the other Catalyst core developers based on non-resolvable differences of opinion on how the project should develop.

So you could call it a "second system done right" :-)

(Update: I should note that I've been toying with Mojolicious for a private project in the last few weeks, and quite enjoyed the experience. Hence "done right").

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