There might be a little truth to the fact that Dancer is marked Beginner and five star documentation, while Mojolicious is marked as Intermediate and has four stars of documentation. Dancer v/s Mojolicious

At this point, there are enough docs and plugins for all that you would want and you just bring them together like ingredients for a cake... urr... starting to talk like a Mojolician...

Maybe I was put off by exactly that video that is still around: https://vimeo.com/40579180 While frameworks like Starman is much more serious, and once hearing their strong points... appealed more to me.

But it is more the fact that I got it immediately with node.js and Dancer, vs having to really trial-and-error my way around mojolicious. (but like I said, the point is moot now, as the docs of all webplatforms I talked about are topnotch)

And maybe... a preference for the . instead of the fat comma:

# extract title from template (in a beginner's tutorial!)
my $title = $c->ua->get($msg)->res->dom->at('title')->text;
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Finally, there was some PM talk about the same here:

Mojolicious vs Dancer (security-wise)?

I hope to find some time to jump into Dancer2... maybe the summervacation...

Starman is not a framework, it's an application-server / web-engine so it's apples and oranges; Starman is also the only engine that has ever given me bugs and even when it's running perfectly, uwsgi is superior in every way excepting simplicity of use/installation.

The video is clearly meant to amuse… It's fairly normal fare for Internet culture. And what dot? This is the fat comma =>. The ->s are chained methods, which is a fun and makes for good terse style; part of why jQuery is widely loved.