Perl 6

[prog]

I feel the gentle winds of conventional wisdom buffeting me towards Ruby.

Is there a practical reason why I might want to do this? Coz if I learned it just for S&G but then didn't immediately start using it for serious, I'd forget it.

"Dude, Rails" is not a sufficient reason, unless you can tell me why I'd want to use Rails over any Mason-based solution.

(Referring to Ruby as "Perl 6" is from xach, and the funniest in-joke I've heard all week.)

Comments

[novalis.livejournal.com]

Mason does code in templates.
Rails does that, plus model/view/controller routing, plus object-relational mapping.

But it's no reason to learn Ruby. Learn Python instead, and use Pylons, which is just the same as Rails except a bit less magic.

Or maybe Maypole is good enough that you can just use your existing Perl skills in a similar framework.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Or use Flapjax, and you already know ECMAScript!