Perl Workshop in Israel, 2012 - Sawyer X: CGI.pm MUST DIE (Eng)
CGI.pm is probably the most widely used module for web applications and CGI scripts. These days we have much better tools like Plack/PSGI, Dancer, Catalyst and other web frameworks and it's time to move on. CGI these days is insecure-by-default, slow, annoying, difficult, impossible to debug, ugly, scary, horrible (and any other bad word you can think of) and it's time to KILL IT. Join me for a talk on why we should stop using CGI, what we should use instead and how to convert away from CGI.
CGI.pm is probably the most widely used module for web applications and CGI scripts. These days we have much better tools like Plack/PSGI, Dancer, Catalyst and other web frameworks and it's time to move on. CGI these days is insecure-by-default, slow, annoying, difficult, impossible to debug, ugly, scary, horrible (and any other bad word you can think of) and it's time to KILL IT. Join me for a talk on why we should stop using CGI, what we should use instead and how to convert away from CGI.