1/12/2025 at 10:39:42 AM
by peateasea
1/12/2025 at 9:23:01 PM
There was a solid talk on Modern Web Development with Perl in August.by brightball
1/13/2025 at 1:22:18 AM
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.by matt-attack
1/12/2025 at 6:21:44 PM
What a blast from the past - the CGI library is still receiving some love...by minaguib
1/12/2025 at 8:23:23 PM
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.
by oalders
1/12/2025 at 9:21:17 PM
All I hear when somebody says “Lambda” is “CGI”by brightball
1/12/2025 at 9:11:42 PM
Preach. CGI made the web dynamic. Before this, it was just a libary.by jgalt212
1/12/2025 at 8:12:41 PM
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 !-)
by samsk
1/13/2025 at 11:38:05 AM
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?by cutler
1/13/2025 at 4:22:25 PM
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.by oalders
1/12/2025 at 10:51:32 PM
Interesting that one of the modules is a statically typed perl dialect(?)by riffraff
1/13/2025 at 1:52:30 AM
Yes, the author have crazy passion; he update it every week.by melagonster
1/13/2025 at 11:33:08 AM
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.by cutler
1/13/2025 at 4:23:38 PM
Moose is a big hammer. Moo can do a lot of what Moose can do, with very few dependencies.by oalders
1/12/2025 at 8:05:40 PM
Perl lives!by creaktive