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

[Tobias Kremer]

On 15.02.2009, at 09:40, Octavian Râsnita wrote:
> In my country there are no jobs for perl developers. There are jobs  
> for Java, C#, C++ and PHp developers.
> The knowledge of perl is considered as an advantage in very few job  
> announcements, but it is wanted mostly for administrative tasks, not  
> for web development, and there are very few programmers that even  
> heard about Catalyst.
> Maybe that's why I wrongly thought that this is the same in other  
> countries.

Same here in Germany! The big companies mostly choose Java for  
whatever, whereas the agile new web startups go with either PHP or  
RoR. I can only think of one important (German) site from recent times  
that is built with Perl and AFAIK they're in the process of  
transitioning to RoR, too. Apart from the US and UK there aren't many  
countries in the world still using Perl for big web development  
projects and high-profile sites. I'm already starting to get angry  
every time somebody pulls out another chart or statistic which is  
supposed to show that Perl is as strong as ever because this simply is  
NOT true - at least not for every place in the world.

--Tobias