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DZone > Web Dev Zone > Updating the Duct Tape for HTML5: Websockets in Perl (Mojolicious)

Updating the Duct Tape for HTML5: Websockets in Perl (Mojolicious)

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Nov. 01, 11 · Web Dev Zone · Interview
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Perl was easy to use, wildly popular, and lots of fun. The Camel Book introduced many coders to a powerful new language (and the whimsically-covered O'Reilly series), and offered access to web programming via CGI.

Plenty of people still develop in Perl ('the duct tape of the Internet'), although lately some criticism of Perl programmers has surfaced.

No doubt about one thing, though: CGI is just too old.

Sensing a need, Sebastian Ridel created Mojolicious to fill CGI's place, satisfying Perl programmers' desire for a more modern web framework

Yesterday Sebastian showed off some of Mojolicious' simplicity and power:

By now you've probably heard about WebSockets, and that they are the future of web development, but so far there are very little examples that really show how easy to use they actually are. So today we are going to explore the wonderful world of events in Mojolicious a bit and build a little application that forwards all framework log messages to a browser window.

The script is short and sweet and, if you still love Perl, will warm your HTML5 heart.

Check it out here.

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