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Does Perl now support web development and if so, to what extent? Can you now do with Perl 5 what you can do with PHP?
by ykonstant 3y ago
Does Perl now support web development and if so, to what extent? Can you now do with Perl 5 what you can do with PHP?
- vague_irssi 3y agoNot like php, no. But perl has loads of excellent web frameworks(mojolicious, dancer, et al) and there is webperl.js which tries to bridge the gap to an extent, though I don't know if anyone uses it and what the quality of it is
- thesuperbigfrog 3y agoPerl Mason does web templating similar to PHP: http://www.masonhq.com/ http://www.masonhq.com/ For years Amazon.com used Perl Mason.
- btilly 3y agoIt is ludicrous to claim that Perl didn't support web development. From Amazon to eToys to Citysearch to Stamps.com, big dot coms were all based on Perl. Big PHP shops like Facebook, and PHP projects like WordPress, came in a later development generation for the simple reason that PHP made it easy to get started on shared webhosting.