Perl is a great solution for web development.
Others will disagree but the best way I still believe is using mod_perl - but
only if you use it's full power - and you probably need a special sort of mind
set to use - but that can be said for any language.
From experience - it may be fractionally slower than small "standalone" apps
that dancer etc are good at, but it is (a) much, much more stable {dancer etc
does not cope well with either large requests or lots of small requests}, and
(b) if you have a large code base and/or a large number of services then it
generally uses much less compute power than the others {can easily handle
multiple services on a single apache instance}
Where it really gains is the hooks into the apache process - being able to add
functionality easily at any stage in the request process, from path
translation, AAA stages, pre-processing, to post-processing and logging, and
also to interact with other languages at any stage - e.g. can handle
pre-processing & post-processing around a script written in another language
(e.g. PHP, Java) or produced by another webserver integrated by mod_proxy.
It isn't really a framework though like dancer or mojolicious and thus has its
own advantages and disadvantages.
You would to some extent have to roll your own code to produce the pages
themselves although there are libraries out there to do lots of it.
We have an in house library whose embryonic stages were written over 20 years
ago - and has now been stable for around 12-13 years and works strong...
James
-----Original Message-----
From: Wesley Peng <m...@yonghua.org>
Sent: 04 August 2020 06:43
To: modperl@perl.apache.org
Subject: suggestions for perl as web development language [EXT]
greetings,
My team use all of perl, ruby, python for scripting stuff.
perl is stronger for system admin tasks, and data analysis etc.
But for web development, it seems to be not as popular as others.
It has less selective frameworks, and even we can't get the right people to do
the webdev job with perl.
Do you think in today we will give up perl/modperl as web development language,
and choose the alternatives instead?
Thanks & Regards
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