Perl: Love it, or hate it, but don't ignore it. Phillip Smith calls me out for omitting Perl from my list of Node.js event loop alternatives (I only mentioned Twisted and EventMachine). No conspiracy here, I’m just not connected enough to the Perl community to know what the popular event loop libraries are. To Perl’s credit, Perlbal was the first piece of software I saw that showed me how a single threaded, event loop based system could massively outperform a threaded alternative.
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"No conspiracy here, I’m just not connected enough to the Perl community to know what the popular event loop libraries are."
Fair 'nuff. :-) And many thanks for the note.
There's still a lot of Perl work out there. As this handy dandy graph from indeed.com shows
http://www.indeed.com/trendgraph/jobgraph.png?q=pe rl%2C+python%2C+%22ruby+on+rails%22%2C+php
Dave K - 27th November 2009 23:56 - #