> Having only one team for Perl is quite bad, > especially since one of the organizers happens to be the iX magazine > (http://www.heise.de/ix/), > which has a big influence in the german speaking world. :/
Today I was in a meeting with one of Germany's top twenty internet agencies to speak about the future of our (home-brewed Perl-based) community app. I spoke to the person in charge of technology who of course tried to persuade me that Java and .Net/C# is the way to go. Even worse, he was convinced that Perl has no object- orientation features at all! He was surprised when I told him about the CPAN and Perl's flexible object capabilities. Unfortunately this is not an isolated case. One of Germany's most successful web portals serving several hundred million page impressions per month with Perl recently started hiring Java developers. I hate to say this, but Perl is really lacking some sort of marketing. To my mind Catalyst could be the new killer-app that has the potential to resurrect our favorite language. But not if we can't get the word out. This is really frustrating. Catalyst's website is one big mess. Go to the wiki section and you get gazillions of links on one page. Click on documentation and you receive ugly POD pages. This is just not up to standards set by other frameworks. Don't get me wrong: The content and documentation is better than most other frameworks but the presentation just sucks. I recently met another fellow perl dude and we're currently brainstorming what has to change to make Perl and the Catalyst project more appealing to the average CTO, technical lead, dude-who-is-in-charge- but-thinks-perl-is-dead :) Sorry, had to get this off of my mind ... -- Tobias P.S. I read that the upcoming issue of the iX magazine will feature an article about web development with Catalyst ... _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
