[Catalyst] Last Chance / Last Day: Web developmentplatformcontestand Perl / Catalyst

Matt S Trout dbix-class at trout.me.uk
Thu Nov 30 21:38:40 GMT 2006


Tobias Kremer wrote:
> I hate to say this, but Perl is really lacking some sort of marketing.
> To my mind Catalyst could be the new killer-app that has the potential to
> resurrect our favorite language. But not if we can't get the word out.
> This is really frustrating. Catalyst's website is one big mess. Go to
> the wiki section and you get gazillions of links on one page. Click on
> documentation and you receive ugly POD pages. This is just not up to
> standards set by other frameworks. Don't get me wrong: The content and
> documentation is better than most other frameworks but the presentation
> just sucks. I recently met another fellow perl dude and we're currently
> brainstorming what has to change to make Perl and the Catalyst project
> more appealing to the average CTO, technical lead, dude-who-is-in-charge-
> but-thinks-perl-is-dead :)

Then subscribe to the catalyst-dev list and join in the discussions already 
started by the marketing team for working towards this!

There's already an active effort going on to improve this stuff, put the 
energy you just spent complaining towards working with the guys doing so next 
time :)



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