Happy birthday Dancer - two years of the Perl Dancer web framework project
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Today marks two years since the first CPAN release of Dancer, a Perl web framework. A quick summary of how far we've come since then.
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supermatthew: 27 minutes old randgj: 22 minutes old
(and two more since then, and probably more after I run out of time to edit)
Dude, whoever you are, if you're going to troll Dancer articles, register your sockpuppets in advance.
Kids these days ...
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=902213
will attest.
It's sad, it's pointless, and I sincerely doubt it's going to stop anybody using Dancer. shrug
Edit: A few facts about why I’m happy to use it:
1) Dancer is well-documented and uses an easy syntax. You can get going pretty fast.
2) Dancer is a light-weight framework – you can make many choices by yourself (file/folder layout, templating, the way you want to implement controllers, …). It comes with reasonable defaults, though.
3) It integrates well with the whole Plack stack, so you can use any of the available middleware and/or write your own middleware easily.
4) Whenever I needed some feature which was not there, it was a matter of a few hours to implement an appropriate plugin. It’s quite extensible.
Congratulations to the Dancer team (and to everyone else working on interesting projects: Mojolicious, Catalyst, Moose, MetaCPAN etc. etc.)
The whole project is a total clusterfuck, just look through the recent commits on GitHub and count the number of so called bugfixes without unit tests, or serious security issues that have never been announced to the userbase.