Re: Perl 6 and Web Development

[sundialsvc4]

If you want a glimpse of “where web development is going,” do not be “thinking like it's 1999” or you will surely never see the sea-change until long after it has passed you by.

We don't need another “improvement” to the HTTP web-server. Apache and IIS (ick...) are both good enough for the purpose, and we don't need another one.

Think outside the ‘web site.’ This metaphor is extremely limited, at best. We won't even be building web-sites, as we know them today, for too much longer, although of course we'll be maintaining them forever. Information does not need to be “either ‘here’ or ‘there.’” (How very 20th century...) We build complicated templating systems that mix metaphors because right now we have to. We've done it for so long that we've gotten very good at it, but as a result we become snow-blind to the possibility that things will be fundamentally different, even to the point of sweeping away our own jobs as we now know them (and making us all say, “good riddance”).

I wrote some thoughts on that here...