I have thought about the reasons myself when I posted my comment, and I think it boils down to the fact tht I actually know no one who is building a full product with Perl myself. For most other web technologies, be it ASP.NET, Rails, PHP, Python, Java .. I know multiple people who successfully use it, and this makes it a lot easier to go with such technologies. I know it’s probably rubbish and I’m sure that there’s nothing wrong with Perl from a technology standpoint (at least I’m sure it’s superior to PHP, which has quite a few technical problems, although it’s extremely easy to deploy). And I also used Perl in the past (not for web stuff though), but for me, even if it’s probably not really justified, Perl sounds like a legacy technology that I probably wouldn’t choose to build a new product.

Regards,
Dennis

I’m curious – Why not use Perl for developing an entire product? We hear that a lot from non-Perlers and it seems to be a very odd statement to make. What exactly is it about Perl that turns you off?

Thanks,
Rob

we haven’t considered Catalyst when we looked at available frameworks. I will make sure to consider it for a future project, as it looks quite nice. I’m not so sure if I really want to use Perl for developing an entire product though.