This reminds me of the Perl Catalyst approach, which states that everything important already exists in CPAN, so the web framework just needs to provide a littl

This reminds me of the Perl Catalyst approach, which states that everything important already exists in CPAN, so the web framework just needs to provide a little glue to stick it together. In other words, there's massive reuse of CPAN components with Catalyst, as the framework itself doesn't provide much for free. The sinatra "hello world" is insanely compact, and really says something... Here is one point where Catalyst is different, to put it politely. On a side note, I got so frustrated with Catalyst that I now use Django.