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Comment by replwoacause | Hacker News Reader

Any good reasons not to build web apps and API backends with Perl these days?

The ecosystem of PHP/Ruby/Python is miles ahead so if you need anything ranging from auth to validation, you will have to do 10 times the work.

In fact, even modern JS frameworks with features that have no equivalent in Laravel/RoR/Django see their appeal diminished because those old school frameworks do the basic so well they are productivity cheat code for essentials.

It's so easy to find people delighting in beautiful hot reload yet struggling for days making Oauth work or having to pay a saas for image resizing while 20 years old tech have that part nailed down.

The Mojolicious framework can do a lot of heavy lifting for you. It's not that hard to do interesting things while writing minimal code: https://www.mojolicious.org/

That's actually making my point, this is riduculously limited compared to the tools I mentioned.

Django's admin alone is richer in feature than this whole framework.

Use what you are comfortable with, I write Perl backends in Mojolicious, its great.

I do. I've worked with other languages over the years but I always come back to Perl. There's a few good options for web apps/APIs.

Web frameworks:

https://www.dancer.pm

https://mojolicious.org

http://catalyst.perl.org

https://metacpan.org/pod/Kelp

https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::API::REST

Middleware:

https://plackperl.org