Perl 5.16 and Relevance [LWN.net]

Perl 5.16 and Relevance

Posted Sep 15, 2011 6:20 UTC (Thu) by szabgab (guest, #80245)
In reply to: Perl 5.16 and Relevance by kragilkragil2
Parent article: Vincent: Perl 5.16 and Beyond

AFAIK Most of the open source Perl stuff consists of libraries allowing one to build large in-house applications. Both web applications and automation stuff. See CPAN for details.

For applications you could take a look at Perl Dancer web framework and at the dancefloor where they show a number of projects written using Dancer.

Another option is the Mojolicious web framework though I am not sure where do they list the projects written in it.

Finally let me point to Padre, the Perl IDE. While being an IDE for Perl is a bit self serving, it is a large open source projects written in Perl recently. (disclosure: I started this project)

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Perl 5.16 and Relevance

Posted Sep 21, 2011 21:53 UTC (Wed) by sebastian (guest, #4910) [Link]

Perl's ease and speed of use are important. A lot of device vendors will ship sample developer kits with Java and C, but these take quite a bit of time to decipher. If I was developing a fancy expensive interface I would take the time to dig thru the developer kits. But a quick search on CPAN may reveal modules that will get you up and running in a couple of hours. Try that in Java. You could waste a week coding up a working example and have less functionality than in Perl.