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Yes, I have gotten some response and interactions on GitHub. Even Sawyer X chimed in on an issue I posted. The project is not dormant, but it does have the feeling of a beehive in late autumn with a few bees flying slowly in and out. From my observations, which may certainly be completely wrong, the project was most active from about 2011 to 2015 and involvement has dwindled a bit. I'm not sure what to attribute this to.

I did chime in on IRC and was pleased to see so many people there. Though you are right, response is a little slow.

So I'm curious to know if you are still using Dancer2 regularly and what you have done with it so far. Please let me know.

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Re^3: Dancer2 developers on PerlMonks?
by 1nickt (Canon) on Dec 13, 2017 at 01:50 UTC

    You can't always interpret a lack of buzzing around as stagnation. The Template Toolkit hasn't had much new core development for years: that's because it's complete. Dancer2 core is not as complete as TT, but it's very full-featured and stable, and the plugin architecture means you can easily build your own if something's missing. Most of the things introduced to core started as plugins anyway.

    As far as what I use Dancer and Dancer2 for : all the new webapps and APIs I build, which is most of my work: "microservices" where the bulk of the requests are for REST endpoints rather than traditional HTML page content. I also have plenty of more human-oriented websites on Dancer/2. (I just started a $job where the app framework is Mojolicious, though.)


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