Andre Landwehr wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I made some pages with Embperl, but I don't know Mason. Yesterday
> a friend told me of Mason, but he does not know Embperl very
> well. Now I wonder about the pros and cons of each, not only in
> respect to performance but also general usability, bugs etc.
> What do more experienced web programmers than I am think about
> Embperl or Mason?
> btw: Is the new EmbperlObject somewhat comparable to Mason's
> component model?
>
Hi Andre,
I am unbiased in that I do not use either, but know about
stuff like this since I wrote my own equivalent to these
web application environments, which will go unnamed ;)
Embperl seems to be more script centric, and Mason seems
more site centric, so mental approaches might differ
between top down vs. bottom up.
I am not meaning to disparage either environment in creating
these very rough generalizations, but I believe that their
respective talents lie in these directions, such that you
might find yourself better enabled creating particular scripts
with Embperl, but in creating a master site of sites, Mason
might make things better.
I can tell you that Embperl is much easier to get going, and
has a very powerful set of objects to work with as well as a
rich syntax. But the Mason site architecture is very advanced,
and promises other features like a great debugger and
application publisher.
Also, Embperl is a bit faster on startup execution, but this
should not matter on a large complex site. Both environments
provide expert modularization & caching methodologies with
Mason's component architecture and Embperl's new object and
Execute() routine.
-- Joshua
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