In userland you actually don't have to install at all, there are no prerequisites to resolve and there is no build process.
Just unpack the tarball from http://latest.mojolicio.us and start playing. :)
For a web engineer, http://mojolicio.us/ is as hard-hitting a brochure page as I've seen in some time. Built-in long-polling combined with full-stack-style templates and simple views combined with that one line install. Good luck and thank you for this contribution!
Highly intriguing. Perl is a solid language that has really held firm ground for scripting but has been over taken by the likes of ruby in the web. Its nice to see the emergence of an mvc framework to help in its popularity and further growth. I for one will definitely be trying this and comparing with my current implementations in ruby.
Yea I'm aware of catalyst but havent really spent any time with perl as of late. A lot of web development that I do is with ruby/sinatra which is the kind of framework I enjoy working with. Its just nice to see new development still going on for perl in this fashion.
You mentioned Sinatra? On my todo list is to look at Dancer, which seems to have started as a clone of Sinatra.
Edit: I might add that you could describe the situation as that parts of Perl 6 has been "backported" to Perl 5. Moose seems to take over the Perl world, like testing did a decade ago. The fun part is the extensibility of the language.
Just for starters though: perl 5.12 language features, Moose, Plack, perlbrew, Task::Kensho, the Modern Perl and Enlightened Perl movements, the Padre IDE, Strawberry Perl. That's maybe 0.0001% of what's going on.
sri was the founder of the Catalyst project, but was later asked to step down from that role by the other Catalyst core developers based on non-resolvable differences of opinion on how the project should develop.
So you could call it a "second system done right" :-)
(Update: I should note that I've been toying with Mojolicious for a private project in the last few weeks, and quite enjoyed the experience. Hence "done right").
I've been looking at Perl frameworks recently, and Dancer in particular. Dancer looks good to me - but so does this. I'd love to see it compared and contrasted to Dancer and Catalyst. Great work!
You might be interested to look at the code linked to from this blog post by vti, who ported his minimalist blog engine bootylicious from Mojolicious::Lite to Dancer:
http://showmetheco.de/articles/2010/11/lets-twist-bootylicio...
While vti is a prolific coder, he's a rather laconic blogger, so he sums up his porting work with "In some ways it is harder, in some ways it is easier, but it is definitely possible."
From what I know of the two, although both expose a Sinatra-like DSL syntax for routing URLs to code, Mojolicious has layers that Dancer doesn't bother with, like its own async HTTP server & client implementations (Dancer sits on top of Plack/PSGI) and an MVC framework underlying the DSL that you can switch to when your app gets bigger (See the "growing your application" guide: http://mojolicio.us/perldoc?Mojolicious/Guides/Growing )
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 43.7 ms ] threadIf I remember correctly, the vote for it was almost unanimous. (I'm on the grant committee.)
Edit: I might add that you could describe the situation as that parts of Perl 6 has been "backported" to Perl 5. Moose seems to take over the Perl world, like testing did a decade ago. The fun part is the extensibility of the language.
https://twitter.com/cpan_new
I bet there's a tonne more work going into Perl modules than Ruby gems...
Just for starters though: perl 5.12 language features, Moose, Plack, perlbrew, Task::Kensho, the Modern Perl and Enlightened Perl movements, the Padre IDE, Strawberry Perl. That's maybe 0.0001% of what's going on.
(Update: I should note that I've been toying with Mojolicious for a private project in the last few weeks, and quite enjoyed the experience. Hence "done right").