Hi Zahir, I somehow missed this post until now - just wanted to say thanks for sharing your feedback, it's always nice to hear from happy users :)
Hope your application is coming along nicely and you're still enjoying building with Dancer2. I hope you don't mind - I've added select quotes from your mail to the testimonials on the Dancer website: http://dancer.pm/testimonials Cheers Dave P On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 00:41:28 +0000 Zahir Lalani <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > > My apologies if this post is not fully appropriate, but I felt I > needed to post - hope its ok. > > Although I have used over a dozen languages, over the last 6-8 years > perl has been a favourite. But in my last job I was tasked with > setting up a large team for a web based enterprise java app. It was > big, SOA based took ages to get things done, even with a team of 30. > > I have recently moved jobs to a company that has no > developers/architects and I was asked to get them into the same space > as my previous company. I decided to look at all options again and > choose objectively - a toolset to develop a large app with few > deveopers. I seriously looked at some of the light weight java > frameworks (Ninja), python, ruby and of course perl. I had used > Dancer 1 for a small project only, but now Dancer2 seemed to really > stand out. Perl was not 'cool' and I have had colleagues laugh at me > for suggesting that as a serious option in previous jobs. But here it > was down to me, and I eventually chose Dancer2, with Starman/Nginx > and Postgresql as the DB. > > After a couple of weeks I have a the beginnings of a complex web app > which is n+1 scaleable, which has a REST API module and will also > have a messaging and workflow tool with a video render farm - all > done in a single language and framework. > > Its damn quick to develop, its quick to run, even a colleague who is > helping do the templating (and a php developer) is converted! Above > all - it's actually fun to see the app come together so quick. > Dancer2 is just amazing - the number of add-on modules is great and I > can get on with the application without worrying about the nitty > gritty. > > So - thank you to all who have been involved - you have done an > amazing job. I just hope Dancer2 gets more exposure as a serious web > framework that it deserves to be. > > Z > > _______________________________________________ > dancer-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.preshweb.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dancer-users -- David Precious ("bigpresh") <[email protected]> http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ www.preshweb.co.uk/twitter www.preshweb.co.uk/linkedin www.preshweb.co.uk/facebook www.preshweb.co.uk/cpan www.preshweb.co.uk/github _______________________________________________ dancer-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.preshweb.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dancer-users
