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Does the name imply it's influenced by Perl's Dancer framework? http://perldancer.org http://perldancer.org

• networked 12y ago
  That's right. The developer has commented about it at http://wiki.tcl.tk/40701 http://wiki.tcl.tk/40701: >xan 2014-10-12: It sure is named after Dancer! However, one of the big draws of tanzer is that it doesn't expect a request handler to read the entire request nor response in one single go, which should hopefully allow for much better performing web applications without standing in one's way much.
  • mst 12y ago
    Forwarding for xan due to HN new account comment limits: Yes indeedy! Although as my rather more florid verbiage points out, I do endeavor to make it as anti-framework as possible and more like a library. But then I suppose the only difference between a framework and library, one might posit, is often the presence of an event loop or some damned thing. As part and parcel to a super ultra mega marketing blitz to remind people of the existence of Tcl and indicate to the world that it never really died, it is my solemnly sworn duty to help plant the seeds of a small ecosystem which unifies the divergent elements of the Tcl web framework ecosystem into one that rather more resembles Perl, in that there are so many wonderful middlewares to bridge gaps everywhere. I developed tanzer to try to be the least common denominator of them all, and to somewhat offend (but in a polite way) Node.js' dominance by forcing the agenda of a language that already has a quite nice event loop and asynchronous I/O built in, thank you very much. :D