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I am familiar with Python ... and I can understand that FastCGI was never really supported in the first place there, especially since Python has WSGI. I am not

I am familiar with Python ... and I can understand that FastCGI was never really supported in the first place there, especially since Python has WSGI. I am not as familiar with Ruby. But just because "modern apps and frameworks" don't recommend it doesn't mean it is a bad protocol. PHP with PHP-FPM is awesome and well supported. Fast CGI still has a place in this world, and I don't see why just because some apps/frameworks have decided it isn't worth their time to support it, it would be an invalid choice to make for a new app...

senthilnayagam 13y ago
perl is a language which has not seen any new adoption by developers, same is true about fastcgi. they were the best/state of the art 5-10 years back was it a design decision or they chose it as no alternate mechanisms/libraries is available in perl. these decisions are important to know for a open source project, it will determine its adoption, number of contributors, and will it flourish
- draegtun 13y ago
  >perl is a language which has not seen any new adoption by developers... This is incorrect. Perl is still seeing good adoption by new developers. Now your argument could be that it probably not at same rate compared to some of the top languages around at this moment but Perl is still growing. Some facts... - CPAN continues to grow - http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/stats/uploads http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/stats/uploads | http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/stats/authors http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/stats/authors - According to this tweet Perl still produces more new repos on Github than languages like Scala, Clojure & Go - https://twitter.com/dberkholz/status/395922559151009792 https://twitter.com/dberkholz/status/395922559151009792 >was it a design decision or they chose it as no alternate mechanisms/libraries is available in perl No idea what their decision criteria was however they are plenty of alternative mechanisms/libraries in Perl. See PSGI/Plack for Perl's state of the art solution - http://plackperl.org http://plackperl.org

senthilnayagam 13y ago

perl is a language which has not seen any new adoption by developers, same is true about fastcgi. they were the best/state of the art 5-10 years back was it a design decision or they chose it as no alternate mechanisms/libraries is available in perl. these decisions are important to know for a open source project, it will determine its adoption, number of contributors, and will it flourish

draegtun 13y ago
>perl is a language which has not seen any new adoption by developers... This is incorrect. Perl is still seeing good adoption by new developers. Now your argument could be that it probably not at same rate compared to some of the top languages around at this moment but Perl is still growing. Some facts... - CPAN continues to grow - http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/stats/uploads http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/stats/uploads | http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/stats/authors http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/stats/authors - According to this tweet Perl still produces more new repos on Github than languages like Scala, Clojure & Go - https://twitter.com/dberkholz/status/395922559151009792 https://twitter.com/dberkholz/status/395922559151009792 >was it a design decision or they chose it as no alternate mechanisms/libraries is available in perl No idea what their decision criteria was however they are plenty of alternative mechanisms/libraries in Perl. See PSGI/Plack for Perl's state of the art solution - http://plackperl.org http://plackperl.org