I'm a long time perl programmer and I've been dealing with mod_perl
on and off for years now. I think mod_perl has some huge
potential, that mod_perl could really revolutionize application
development and provide a base to build powerful easy web-based
applications, but something is missing.
Mod_perl apps are too hard. Too hard to write, too hard debug, too hard
to install, and too hard to package and redistribute. I don't know why
and I don't know how to fix it but I'm affraid if we don't a huge potential
market for mod_perl and for the skills of the people who know it (us) will
be lost.
With the lowering of the cost of hardware, and the increase in the power
and popularity of the web browser, it is becoming more and more apparent
that small-medium scale client/sever web-based applications are going to
be very popular soon. The Mozilla project is working twords expanding the
functionality of the browser to allow it to be higher functioning and
allow you to create much more robust web based applications. These
applications will need a back end and mod_perl has most of the makings of
an excelent platform to build that on. Unfortunately, I don't see it happening.
Progress is too slow, documentation too jumbled and spotty and the barriers
to entry are just high enough to push people into investing time into PHP
and Python and Java and all the other options that exist out there.
Maybe it's because the perl community is stretched thin with the development
of Perl 6 and there are fundamental issues with mod_perl that just can't
be solved inside the Perl 5 framework, maybe there is just little intrist
since very few people use mod_perl. I'm not sure why but mod_perl just
isn't the application platform that it had the potential to become a few
years ago.
Are there any future plans to revamp mod_perl to make it a better development
platform? What's in the works for mod_per for perl 6? Will it be dramatically
different?
Thanks
-Eric
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on and off for years now. I think mod_perl has some huge
potential, that mod_perl could really revolutionize application
development and provide a base to build powerful easy web-based
applications, but something is missing.
Mod_perl apps are too hard. Too hard to write, too hard debug, too hard
to install, and too hard to package and redistribute. I don't know why
and I don't know how to fix it but I'm affraid if we don't a huge potential
market for mod_perl and for the skills of the people who know it (us) will
be lost.
With the lowering of the cost of hardware, and the increase in the power
and popularity of the web browser, it is becoming more and more apparent
that small-medium scale client/sever web-based applications are going to
be very popular soon. The Mozilla project is working twords expanding the
functionality of the browser to allow it to be higher functioning and
allow you to create much more robust web based applications. These
applications will need a back end and mod_perl has most of the makings of
an excelent platform to build that on. Unfortunately, I don't see it happening.
Progress is too slow, documentation too jumbled and spotty and the barriers
to entry are just high enough to push people into investing time into PHP
and Python and Java and all the other options that exist out there.
Maybe it's because the perl community is stretched thin with the development
of Perl 6 and there are fundamental issues with mod_perl that just can't
be solved inside the Perl 5 framework, maybe there is just little intrist
since very few people use mod_perl. I'm not sure why but mod_perl just
isn't the application platform that it had the potential to become a few
years ago.
Are there any future plans to revamp mod_perl to make it a better development
platform? What's in the works for mod_per for perl 6? Will it be dramatically
different?
Thanks
-Eric
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