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I'm old enough to have been using Perl with CGI in the waning years of the old millennium. I loved it then, but it's not just hype cycles that caused people to
by mkozlows 1y ago
I'm old enough to have been using Perl with CGI in the waning years of the old millennium. I loved it then, but it's not just hype cycles that caused people to move on to different solutions: Modern stuff is better in a bunch of very real ways.
- stevekemp 1y agoI found that with CGI::Application, and similar Perl modules you get the facilities of the modern stuff, as well as the portability and simplicity of a simple index.cgi script. Two things I think Perl always had a good reputation for was CPAN, providing interfaces to "everything", and a high degree of testing. I love that golang and rust both emphasize testing in modules/crates/packages. Writing perl CGI scripts I always had test-cases for the whole lifecycle, and that's something that isn't so common these days writing handlers in other languages.