[cgiapp] CGI::Application or Dancer2, Mojolicious et similar

[Stephen Carville]

On 08/11/2016 03:13 AM, max.augsburg at gmx.de wrote:
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> Dear CGI Application Experts,
> 
> I am a Newbie in Perl and Web Programming. I tested a little bit Dancer2, but I liked CGI::Application from the design much much more because it feels for me more perlish.
> 
> But what me confuse a little bit is, that the last stable version is from the year 2011. Please allow me a straight and honest question: Does it make sense yet to learn CGI::Application or should I better go ahead to a modern framework as Dancer2 although CGI::Application to me appeals much more? Is CGI::Application still active and will there be new stable versions on CPAN in the near future (the devel version that contains also one security bugfix is more than one year old)? Or is CGI::Application over the many years simply ready programmed so that only minor bugfixes are necessary?
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> I really hope, that the wonderful CGI App has a future. I think this framework has such a wonderful and specific design so that it really sets itself apart from the "big modern" modern frameworks (Dancer2, Mojolicious, Catalyst) which are all very similar and so that there is real need for it. 
> 
> Best wishes,
> Max

Personally, I really like CGI::Application with HTML::Template.  That
combination is straight-forward with no BS.  The support bothers me a
bit too but I only write web stuff as ancillary to my primary
professions of systems and network engineering.  For that CGI::App
serves me well.  If I was a real web developer the support issue might
bother me too.

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