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LAMP is dead! Long live (Perl) web frameworks!

Mark Gardner on October 05, 2021

Twitter recently recommended a tweet to me (all hail the algorithm) touting what the author viewed as the “top 5 web development stacks.” // ...
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Avishai Goldman

I'm with you that LAMP is out of touch.
Personally always work on an MVP stack: Mojo, Vue and Postgres.
Mojo and Vue actually share a lot of values in being progressive (meaning learn as you go, not woke). I find postgres to be that way too, that you're constantly learning and improving, without having to read a 20 minute tutorial to do hello world.

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Dave Cross

LAMP is still a useful term. If only because there are still so many LAMP systems out there (I know this because I still get people asking me to help maintain them).

the community has long since recommended the use of a framework built on the PSGI specification, deprecating 1990s-era CGI scripts and the mod_perl Apache extension

This is true, of course. But the Perl-using world is a lot bigger than the Modern-Perl-using community.

So I think we're stuck with LAMP for a while longer. But maybe we need to redefine it to mean "legacy system that needs rewriting :-)"