[Catalyst] RFC: The paradox of choice in web development

[Octavian Râsnita]

I also agree with Dan.

Catalyst tries to solve that problem in the RoR way - it offers a default 
ORM, a default template in its manual, but there are much more other perl 
tools which are not defined as the recommended ones.

For example, HTML::FormFu is a very good form manager, but it doesn't create 
(yet) the javascript code for client-side validation. Instead of improving 
this form manager only (if it is the considered the best) to also create the 
JS code, other similar modules are improved, so finally becomes harder and 
harder to choose which is the best one, but none of them would be perfect.

So finally the programmers might prefer to move to RoR or Django or 
something else, because it is prefered to eat a medium-good apple, than to 
find a very good apple after trying tens of bad-taste apples.

Unfortunately I don't know if there is a solution for this, but less perl 
sites means that the demand for perl programmers is lower and lower each 
year, and this is one more reason for programmers of not beeing interested 
in perl.

Octavian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Steiner" <tw03d034 at technikum-wien.at>
To: <catalyst at lists.scsys.co.uk>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 12:01 AM
Subject: [Catalyst] RFC: The paradox of choice in web development


> Hi there,
>
> here's an interesting article that dandv (from #catalyst) has posted on 
> his
> wiki [1]. it explains how TMTOWTDI can be bad for people starting out in
> catalyst, and how compareable webframeworks (RoR/Django) deal with this.
>
> [1] 
> http://wiki.dandascalescu.com/essays/paradox-of-choice-in-web-development
>
> i added my comments to the article, suggesting that we step up on the
> documentation and marketing! we need to give the layperson a easier ride 
> in
> starting out with catalyst. and that requires more tutorials/screencasts,
> better official documentation, and more books being written. tell me what 
> you
> people think of the article and how we can get catalyst more used and 
> known.
>
> Greetings,
> David
>
>
>
>
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