hello,
> > what do you mean by this? prototypes are here for decades and signatures
> > are experimental and i guess it will be core in some releases.
> Stuff like
> $o->method { code }
ooohh right! this is a thing i also missed with perl (fixed in raku).
> > Template toolkit is still by far the best template toolkit i know.
> > i really thing the only thing where perl was not a precursor in web dev
> > is plack (which is inspired by wsgi which is inspired by rack ... i
> > don't know if there is another ancestor).
> That's the big issue. Too much choice in the ecosystem, with some of it not
> clearly enough explained... and no simple integration with js libraries for
> ajax at first.
> Yeah, I mean mason. At some point long ago, it was about the only
> game in town for perl.
yes! the eperl competitor. i remember that.
> > ActiveRecord was easier than DBIx::Class for simple situations. that's
> > one of the reasons of the popularity of RoR (also the Ruby syntax).
>
> I still thing DBIx::Class is overkill. The DB::Rose stuff was way simpler
> and I would have preferred for it to win.
Well... i liked the simplicity until i had some cases like having 2
different DBs with the same model: piece of cake with DBIxC and
impossible with ActiveRecord (AFAIR).
regards
marc
