I also agree with Dan.
Catalyst tries to solve that problem in the RoR way - it offers a default
ORM, a default template in its manual, but there are much more other perl
tools which are not defined as the recommended ones.
For example, HTML::FormFu is a very good form manager, but it doesn't create
(yet) the javascript code for client-side validation. Instead of improving
this form manager only (if it is the considered the best) to also create the
JS code, other similar modules are improved, so finally becomes harder and
harder to choose which is the best one, but none of them would be perfect.
So finally the programmers might prefer to move to RoR or Django or
something else, because it is prefered to eat a medium-good apple, than to
find a very good apple after trying tens of bad-taste apples.
Unfortunately I don't know if there is a solution for this, but less perl
sites means that the demand for perl programmers is lower and lower each
year, and this is one more reason for programmers of not beeing interested
in perl.
Octavian
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Steiner" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 12:01 AM
Subject: [Catalyst] RFC: The paradox of choice in web development
Hi there,
here's an interesting article that dandv (from #catalyst) has posted on
his
wiki [1]. it explains how TMTOWTDI can be bad for people starting out in
catalyst, and how compareable webframeworks (RoR/Django) deal with this.
[1]
http://wiki.dandascalescu.com/essays/paradox-of-choice-in-web-development
i added my comments to the article, suggesting that we step up on the
documentation and marketing! we need to give the layperson a easier ride
in
starting out with catalyst. and that requires more tutorials/screencasts,
better official documentation, and more books being written. tell me what
you
people think of the article and how we can get catalyst more used and
known.
Greetings,
David
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