I think we are talking past each other. I listed a lot of frameworks, including three in python. I started with Perl, and added a whole bunch more. I could, and should, have presented them better.
Personally I think the fact they are using DBI is the inconsequential part. It takes up few lines of the example, and most of the other code is the specifics of the framework (although they are very similar, because they all Sinatra clones, to varying degrees). What do you expect to be different in a non-DB based test (I'm still unclear what point you are trying to make)? Their template systems are pretty simple to use as well.
> Again, you missed my point. I wasn't suggestion that you were comparing the performance of the two. I was commenting on why I switched away from Perl to Go.
That's fine, and a worthy conversation to have, I'm just trying to keep this on the topic of implementation size, since I think the performance side of the discussion is being handled well enough elsewhere.
> Except you didn't You gave AN example (singular). It was one language; Perl.
Actually I gave eight examples, three Perl, three Python, three lua and 1 Ruby. The fact there were three Perl implementations first, and listed by themselves is sort of an accident. I was really interested in how Mojolicious did, since that's my favorite at the moment, and then I checked the other Perl implementations, and then I looked for others that might be good examples. I intended for them to be taken all together, even if that's not how it seemed.
> With Perl, you have a number of different ways you can hook the runtimes into the web server (CGI, Apache libs, etc), pure Perl and C libraries ...
> he ironic thing with Perl is despite scripts in the language being some of the most portable code on the POSIX community, running performance critical Perl webapps leads to very unportable set ups.
How recent is the data this opinion is based on? My understanding is that now most (new) Perl web projects are using PSGI as a common back-end making it extremely portable, and often using pure-perl servers for performance. There's some evidence they can significantly beat mod_perl2[1].
> This might sound critical, but I genuinely do love Perl. I'd say it was up there as one of my favourite languages (and over the years I've learn to develop in a great number of different languages). But sadly nothing in life is perfect.
I was really, _really_ trying to not make it a Perl vs Go thing. It's obvious I do have a preference though. I'm glad you like Perl, it does seem to fit the mindset of certain people well, and even if they don't stick with it, they remember it fondly. :)
[1]: http://old.nabble.com/mod_perl2-vs-Starman-and-other-pure-pe...
