Good day fellow monks,

I am starting a new project, with a clean slate, this is a wonderful and rare delight.

I need to create a back end web service and being a man of the times, I plan to use a REST style API.

The back end needs to provide:

• User Signup
• User Authentication
• Order creation
• Payment
• Job Acceptance
• Geolocation of assets

There will be more, but that's some of the main features.

I do not have to write it in Perl, but that is where I know my way the best, so I am minded to make it so.

I have started looking at Mojolicious, but then thought I'd back up a step and ask for some advice.

• Is Perl still a good language to use, or am I a dinosaur?
• Is Mojolicious a good way to build a REST service
• What other frameworks would you folk recommend I look at
• Does anyone know of a nice open source project providing some set of the above features, that could get me started?
• Any other warnings or guidance from those with experience in REST

Many thanks for your time
R.

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