I agree here. If Perl 6 however gets anything close to Perl 5's Mojolicious it would be more than enough to switch to it. I haven't used Perl in many years, but

I agree here. If Perl 6 however gets anything close to Perl 5's Mojolicious it would be more than enough to switch to it. I haven't used Perl in many years, but it's by far the best web framework I've ever used. It's really thought out well, made all the right design decisions from the beginning and just really great code itself. But such gems tend to be unique, also in completely different fields. And it probably wouldn't have been possible if the original developer hadn't been involved and gained experience through Catalyst, which is roughly Perl's take on Ruby on Rails. If it got a bit more press in its early days, outside of the Perl community I think the world of web development could look very different today. As I said I am not a Perl developer anymore (and don't focus on the web part anymore either), and I am sure there is a bit of nostalgia in those lines, but even though there are great frameworks in other languages, no doubt, there is impressive projects, I still didn't get something that allowed such a kind of rapid development and transitioning prototype applications into production services in such a seamless manner. I think it's also a great example of Perl being very readable despite all the ugly scripts you find out there - of course also because a big bunch of it being written by non perl developers who just needed to get a script going. Just like with JavaScript and PHP. It's funny though how the presence of a well done web application framework nowadays is considered the killer application in a pretty consistent way. I've seen that in various languages that weren't really made for web application programming as well. There is obvious reason, as it's the agreed upon API for most applications, however I wonder if this might not bring stagnation and kind of a cycle that only allows a certain way of thinking and developing to succeed, as standards and programming languages/frameworks co-evolve.