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There was a solid talk on Modern Web Development with Perl in August.

https://youtu.be/ommhbiRx-vI?si=eSZQUKxaSUwAyeXI

What a blast from the past - the CGI library is still receiving some love...

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 !-)

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.

Preach. CGI made the web dynamic. Before this, it was just a libary.

All I hear when somebody says “Lambda” is “CGI”

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(?)

https://metacpan.org/release/KIMOTO/SPVM-0.990038

Yes, the author have crazy passion; he update it every week.

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!

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