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Happy birthday Dancer - two years of the Perl Dancer web framework project

67 points by bigpresh 15y ago

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.

supermatthew 15y ago
Two years and Dancer is still based on global variables, which make it impossible to scale in any meaningful way... come a long way my ass. 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.
randgj 15y ago
Some of the worst Perl code i've ever seen.
mst 15y ago
Story: posted 42 minutes ago. 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 ...
- Cushman 15y ago
  Do they remind anyone else of the fake app reviews from here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855140 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855140 ? They're coming to get us next!
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- ZeroMinx 15y ago
  I'm curious why Dancer keep being attacked.. It was recently attacked on http://cpanratings.perl.org/ http://cpanratings.perl.org/ as well (but those "ratings" have now been removed).
  - mst 15y ago
    I'm guessing they've managed to annoy somebody with a very petty sense of humour. I've personally annoyed several, as the graphic at: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=902213 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
bigfck 15y ago
Is this all Perl has to offer? What a joke of a web framework.
dumdumdum 15y ago
Global variables in 2011, surely modern Perl... NOT! People lost their jobs for choosing this framework.
adam-_- 15y ago
It's very sad to see certain individuals try to overshadow the interesting work going on in the Perl community. Congratulations to the Dancer team (and to everyone else working on interesting projects: Mojolicious, Catalyst, Moose, MetaCPAN etc. etc.)
secure 15y ago
Congrats! I use Dancer for a few projects since about one year and I’m very happy with it. Everybody who knows a little bit of Perl (or wants to learn some) should check it out and build some fun website/webapp with it :) 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.

67 points by bigpresh 15y ago

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.

supermatthew 15y ago

Two years and Dancer is still based on global variables, which make it impossible to scale in any meaningful way... come a long way my ass. 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.

randgj 15y ago

Some of the worst Perl code i've ever seen.

mst 15y ago

Story: posted 42 minutes ago. 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 ...

Cushman 15y ago
Do they remind anyone else of the fake app reviews from here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855140 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855140 ? They're coming to get us next!
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ZeroMinx 15y ago
I'm curious why Dancer keep being attacked.. It was recently attacked on http://cpanratings.perl.org/ http://cpanratings.perl.org/ as well (but those "ratings" have now been removed).
- mst 15y ago
  I'm guessing they've managed to annoy somebody with a very petty sense of humour. I've personally annoyed several, as the graphic at: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=902213 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

bigfck 15y ago

Is this all Perl has to offer? What a joke of a web framework.

dumdumdum 15y ago

Global variables in 2011, surely modern Perl... NOT! People lost their jobs for choosing this framework.

adam-_- 15y ago

It's very sad to see certain individuals try to overshadow the interesting work going on in the Perl community. Congratulations to the Dancer team (and to everyone else working on interesting projects: Mojolicious, Catalyst, Moose, MetaCPAN etc. etc.)

secure 15y ago

Congrats! I use Dancer for a few projects since about one year and I’m very happy with it. Everybody who knows a little bit of Perl (or wants to learn some) should check it out and build some fun website/webapp with it :) 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.