Now just for fun install Mojolicious, and play around with Mojolicious::Lite. It can sit on top of Plack. Don't worry about its templating; it provides a means of layering in whatever system you prefer. Just see how much fun things like the stash and routes are.

I don't guarantee you will like it. But I do guarantee it will be interesting to fiddle with for awhile.

From the docs:

# Using Mojolicious::Lite will enable "strict" and "warnings"
  use Mojolicious::Lite;

  # Route with placeholder
  get '/:foo' => sub {
    my $self = shift;
    my $foo  = $self->param('foo');
    $self->render(text => "Hello from $foo!");
  };

  # Start the Mojolicious command system
  app->start;
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It's not for everyone. And it's maybe not as flexible as Catalyst. But for rapid development of a web application it's fun.

...and as I mentioned, it can use Plack as its back-end, which means you can still have the Plack love.