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Is mod_perl for web app still active today?
greetings,

I personally use both perl and ruby for development.
for web apps the more popular framework is rails.
But I did know mod_perl well, I think it's a powerful tool integrated
with Apache webserver.
May I know if mod_perl is still active on web development today?

Thank you

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Re: Is mod_perl for web app still active today? [ In reply to ]
On Sep 19, 2022, at 11:07 PM, Ken Peng <kenpeng@gmx.com> wrote:
> May I know if mod_perl is still active on web development today?

I'm not sure what you're asking.

Do some people still use it for web development? Yes, most definitely. However, I think it's safe to say it's declined in popularity compared to other Perl web development frameworks such as Plack and Mojolicious and obviously other non-Perl web frameworks, but it's still used by some web developers.

Is mod_perl still maintained? Yes. The latest release (2.0.12) was released in late January 2022.

Later,
Ed
RE: Is mod_perl for web app still active today? [EXT] [ In reply to ]
It is declining - but that is that very few people used even 1% of it's functionality - they just used it to have a perl interpreter embedded in the webserver. It is and never was a web framework - it was more fundamental than that - it add functions to
Perl but you could do what you wanted with it....

Plack (and Dancer) and Mojolicious are what most seem to be using now. These are good but lose a lot of the functionality that mod_perl has to offer {but then most people didn't use those parts anyway}

-----Original Message-----
From: Edward J. Sabol <edwardjsabol@gmail.com>
Sent: 20 September 2022 19:40
To: Ken Peng <kenpeng@gmx.com>
Cc: mod_perl list <modperl@perl.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Is mod_perl for web app still active today? [EXT]

On Sep 19, 2022, at 11:07 PM, Ken Peng <kenpeng@gmx.com> wrote:
> May I know if mod_perl is still active on web development today?

I'm not sure what you're asking.

Do some people still use it for web development? Yes, most definitely. However, I think it's safe to say it's declined in popularity compared to other Perl web development frameworks such as Plack and Mojolicious and obviously other non-Perl web frameworks, but it's still used by some web developers.

Is mod_perl still maintained? Yes. The latest release (2.0.12) was released in late January 2022.

Later,
Ed



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