Re^2: What's your reaction to "Reaction?"

Well, the good news is that I am not-at-all unfamiliar with Catalyst, but I am obviously trying to be as up-to-date as possible ... to whatever extent might be prudent ... specifically at this preliminary-review stage. This is the one, and only, point at which “the ship has not yet embarked.”

There is no question in my mind that a high level framework must be used, and that it should be Catalyst. Nonetheless, I admit to being quite intrigued about what I see (and what I hear being said-about) Moose. The possibility of advantageously using mix-ins, and its relationship to Perl-6, and other reasonably “forward-thinking things,” ... well, now's the one and only very-best time to be considering this sort of thing, as all of us well know.

Reaction (although it has been mentioned in-“print” for about a year now) does not yet seem to be accompanied by a complete and articulate description (in the form of cohesive and complete perldocs) of just why it is so great. Nevertheless, “the brains behind it” are rather formidable. So, “I don't doubt it, but I don't see it (yet).”

I am “window shopping.” Very quickly. Catalyst is already an established definite-yes. And right now is the one best time to be canvassing the others.

Thanks to you Monks, one and all, for your (continuing) opinions on the matter.

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Re^3: What's your reaction to "Reaction?" by stonecolddevin (Parson) on Dec 18, 2008 at 20:40 UTC
You also can't forget that "very shiny" is awesome, but you can't let the up and coming new things get in the way of your work. If you're spending more time trying to keep up to date than getting code written, you should probably reconsider some practices :-) I find following something, say, an application, through from beginning to end is the only way to truly learn something. Then begin learning something new, etc. You can ALWAYS take time to rewrite something to do it the right way though. But remember, not always is new and shiny the right way immediately :-) meh.	[reply]

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Re^3: What's your reaction to "Reaction?"
by stonecolddevin (Parson) on Dec 18, 2008 at 20:40 UTC

You also can't forget that "very shiny" is awesome, but you can't let the up and coming new things get in the way of your work.

If you're spending more time trying to keep up to date than getting code written, you should probably reconsider some practices :-)

I find following something, say, an application, through from beginning to end is the only way to truly learn something. Then begin learning something new, etc. You can ALWAYS take time to rewrite something to do it the *right* way though. But remember, not always is new and shiny the *right* way immediately :-)

meh.

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