I’ve coded in Perl since the late 90’s up until about 3 years ago. Thought Dancer and Dancer2 were awesome web frameworks. Especially loved making my own app-specific DSL.
Then I took a consulting gig and the framework server side was Laravel. I switched and never looked back. I’m even porting one of my Dancer2 backends to Laravel.
My main reasons:
1. Laravel has so much momentum, the tooling is so superior to Dancer2 that the Dancer2 crew will never catch up. The schema migration management alone is a killer app that will drive switching. And tons more.
2. In patio11’s post about selling Bingo Card Creator, he indicated implementation language is a key consideration for a buyer. They want to be able to draw from a larger and possibly less expensive talent pool for maintaining and extending the software. PHP wins on both of those metrics.
3. I’ve reached the point in my life where I want to do stuff WITH as opposed to do stuff TO my applications. Size and cost of the Talent pool is relevant in this way to me for the simple reason I know there aren’t enough hours in the day to do it solo.
I always wanted Perl to make it back into the mainstream. It will never die. But to me at this point, Perl is as impractical as some of my crazy ex-girlfriends. I bid it the same affectionate farewell.
Then I took a consulting gig and the framework server side was Laravel. I switched and never looked back. I’m even porting one of my Dancer2 backends to Laravel.
My main reasons:
1. Laravel has so much momentum, the tooling is so superior to Dancer2 that the Dancer2 crew will never catch up. The schema migration management alone is a killer app that will drive switching. And tons more.
2. In patio11’s post about selling Bingo Card Creator, he indicated implementation language is a key consideration for a buyer. They want to be able to draw from a larger and possibly less expensive talent pool for maintaining and extending the software. PHP wins on both of those metrics.
3. I’ve reached the point in my life where I want to do stuff WITH as opposed to do stuff TO my applications. Size and cost of the Talent pool is relevant in this way to me for the simple reason I know there aren’t enough hours in the day to do it solo.
I always wanted Perl to make it back into the mainstream. It will never die. But to me at this point, Perl is as impractical as some of my crazy ex-girlfriends. I bid it the same affectionate farewell.