I am confused - you like threads so Perl is bad ? I am very happy forking
away and yes I work a lot with non thread safe DBI connections without any
issues.
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 11:53 AM John Dunlap <j...@lariat.co> wrote:
> In my opinion, no one should build new projects in Perl. The world is
> increasingly trending towards parallelism and higher numbers of cpu cores
> and Perl is poorly positioned to leverage these advancements. Many of
> Perl's dependencies are not thread safe and mod_perl forces you to use
> mpm_prefork. My organization has started moving away from Perl to Elixir
> for these reasons.
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020, 3:37 AM James Smith <j...@sanger.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Perl is a great solution for web development.
>>
>> Others will disagree but the best way I still believe is using mod_perl -
>> but only if you use it's full power - and you probably need a special sort
>> of mind set to use - but that can be said for any language.
>>
>> From experience - it may be fractionally slower than small "standalone"
>> apps that dancer etc are good at, but it is (a) much, much more stable
>> {dancer etc does not cope well with either large requests or lots of small
>> requests}, and (b) if you have a large code base and/or a large number of
>> services then it generally uses much less compute power than the others
>> {can easily handle multiple services on a single apache instance}
>>
>> Where it really gains is the hooks into the apache process - being able
>> to add functionality easily at any stage in the request process, from path
>> translation, AAA stages, pre-processing, to post-processing and logging,
>> and also to interact with other languages at any stage - e.g. can handle
>> pre-processing & post-processing around a script written in another
>> language (e.g. PHP, Java) or produced by another webserver integrated by
>> mod_proxy.
>>
>> It isn't really a framework though like dancer or mojolicious and thus
>> has its own advantages and disadvantages.
>>
>> You would to some extent have to roll your own code to produce the pages
>> themselves although there are libraries out there to do lots of it.
>>
>> We have an in house library whose embryonic stages were written over 20
>> years ago - and has now been stable for around 12-13 years and works
>> strong...
>>
>> James
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wesley Peng <m...@yonghua.org>
>> Sent: 04 August 2020 06:43
>> To: modperl@perl.apache.org
>> Subject: suggestions for perl as web development language [EXT]
>>
>> greetings,
>>
>> My team use all of perl, ruby, python for scripting stuff.
>> perl is stronger for system admin tasks, and data analysis etc.
>> But for web development, it seems to be not as popular as others.
>> It has less selective frameworks, and even we can't get the right people
>> to do the webdev job with perl.
>> Do you think in today we will give up perl/modperl as web development
>> language, and choose the alternatives instead?
>>
>> Thanks & Regards
>>
>>
>>
>>
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