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Perl had Mojolicious which was almost as good as Rails and a lumbering beast called Catalyst which was used at the BBC.
by cutler 6y ago
Perl had Mojolicious which was almost as good as Rails and a lumbering beast called Catalyst which was used at the BBC.
- alexhutcheson 6y agoMojolicious wasn’t released until 2008, by which point Rails and Django had both been available for >3 years. Catalyst was released in 2005 (so still after Rails), and definitely didn’t provide Rails-like productivity. If Mojolicious had been available in ~2003 or earlier, it’s entirely possible Ruby never takes off, because developers could get similar productivity in a more “known”/“mainstream” language.