Ask HN: Equivalent of CodeIgniter, but in Perl?

2 pointstapostrophemo17y ago2 comments

Has anyone encountered or written a Perl framework that is lightweight, yet at the same time includes a lot of useful (for web development) libraries, and most importantly, is fun?

Compare/contrast with PHP: In my mind, CGI => straight PHP, Catalyst (=> Rails!) => CakePHP, CGI::Application (and related plugins) => Zend Framework. CGI is too bare-bones, do-it-all-yourself. Catalyst seems all-encompasing, strict in structure, but heavyweight. And CGI::Application (with plugins, of course) has something for everyone, if you can only remember to include the library; aside from that, it lacks a clear structure for how to go about things.

What I want to find is this mapping:

? => CodeIgniter

What Perl web framework feels the most like CodeIgniter?

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(btw, tonight I just found http://perlbuzz.com/2008/11/the-evolution-of-perl-frameworks.html, which referenced Mojo/Mojolicious; this might be the one...)

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tapostrophemoOP17y ago

Update: the Mojolicious docs are pretty thin at the moment, but a series of blog posts (one is http://www.simplicate.ca/blog/2008/12/using-mojolicious-with...) will give me enough tips to get going.

jdp17y ago

I actually preferred CakePHP to CodeIgniter, and really only on the basis of aesthetics. I don't like This_Case :( I was going to say Catalyst, but Mojo looks way cooler. If I were you I'd give it a try

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