[Catalyst] Article on web frameworks ommits Catalyst

Daniel McBrearty danielmcbrearty at gmail.com
Tue Jan 2 15:10:19 GMT 2007


I tried a few times to figure what continuations are, and why I might
want them, and I never succeeded. I usually like things as simple as
possible ... but I'd still like to "get" it.


On 1/2/07, John Napiorkowski <jjn1056 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Kieren Diment <diment at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > There's an article, "Web Framework Manifesto" here:
> >
> http://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?/archives/16-Web-Framework-Manifesto.html
> >
> > I've written a comment in the article suggesting
> > that this is a pretty major
> > ommission and that he might want to evaluate
> > Catalyst and do an update.  The
> > author seems coherent and reasonably knowledgable to
> > me, so how bout it
> > guys?  Maybe you should let him know his mistake
> > too?
>
> This is actually quite an interesting thoughtdump on
> what we'd like in a web development framework.  Some
> of the things mentioned, such as a great dispatching
> system, straightforward ORM support and easy to extend
> APIS (Plugins, customized Controllers, Views or
> Models) we have.  However some of the things mentioned
> I don't see as current strong points of Catalyst, such
> as the idea of web pages being highly componentized
> and capable of managing their own state.  This could
> just be my ignorance though.
>
> The article is big on continuations.  Catalyst has a
> plugin for this but I'm not sure many people know what
> to do with it or what the advantages could be.  To be
> honest I'm not someone that could answer that
> question.
>
> One thing not mentioned as a strong point for a
> framework is something that is a big plus for perl,
> which is the size of CPAN.
>
> --john
>
>
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