testimonials.yml

---
source: "Łukasz Metys Lewandowski"
text: "It's fast! It's simple! It's minimalistic! I really like it! Thanks."
---
source: "Michael G Schwern (@schwern)"
source_url: "https://twitter.com/#!/schwern/status/38484901841870848"
text: "Dancer is the first web framework that hasn't given me an aneurysm. #perl"
---
source: "Damian Krotkine"
text: |
    Got my webservice up and running in 1 day with no knowledge about Dancer
    whatsover.[...] Dancer is excellent for middle size websites or web services. 
    It doesn't get in your way, and supports a [...] lot of backend for deploying 
    and running your application.
    The transition from developing a prototype to having a production
    ready app is very smooth.
---
source: "punkish"
text: |
    Dancer is a breath of fresh air in the convoluted world of Perl web frameworks.
    I have a lot vested in CGI::Application, another fine framework, but Dancer has
    really caught my fancy for future web apps.
---
source: "James Aitken"
text: |
    I like how dancer doesn't force you to code in any specific way, it provides 
    the right amount of syntactic sugar to get your app up and running in double
    quick time - but doesn't get in the way when you want to do something else.

    It's nice and light, and can be deployed in many environments. Thumbs up from
    me!
---
source: "Simon Wistow"
text: |
    In the end I went with Dancer and I'm loving it so far - some more docs 
    on the idiomatic way to deal with user creation, authentication and 
    roles might be nice but I think I figured it all out pretty quickly.
---
source: Daniel Pittman
text: |
    Of all the light-weight frameworks, Dancer was the nicest to
    work with when I went through to evaluate them...
---
source: Joshua Barratt
source_url: https://serialized.net/2010/08/deploying-self-contained-perl-dancer-applications/
text: |
    I’m really enjoying using Perl’s Dancer for building lightweight web
    applications. It’s heavily inspired by Ruby’s Sinatra framework, but clearly
    Perlish.
---
source: talexb
text: |
    Just wrapped up an eight hour scrum task in 90 minutes. I'm really 
    enjoying using Dancer. Awesome, awesome, awesome!
---
source: "@juliofraire"
source_url: https://twitter.com/#!/juliofraire/status/30888830613585921
text: |
    Just downloaded and ran #Perl Dancer. Really curious about it. It looks
    amazing.
---
source: talexb
source_url: https://twitter.com/#!/talexb/status/27076726110552064
text: |
    Trying out @PerlDancer as a basis for building web apps. Very nice.
---
source: Schwern
text: Dancer is the first web framework I haven't wanted to pee on :-) 
---
source: deepakg
source_url: https://twitter.com/#!/deepakg/status/16131603503779840
text: |
    Hacking around using @PerlDancer and enjoying it immensely.
---
source: alexkalderimis
source_url: https://twitter.com/#!/alexkalderimis/status/9747953946198016
text: |
    @PerlDancer is the easiest way to write webapps. One day from idea to
    implemention. Fantastic work.
---
source: tsjr
source_url: https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/d38u2/ask_perl_i_want_to_write_a_minimalist_piece_of/c0
text: |
    For a simple framework I suggest Dancer. Great thing, it made me stop 
    hating web development.
---
source: Carlos Ivan Sosa (gnusosa)
source_url: https://log.gnusosa.net/more-dance
text: |
    ...there's finally a web framework that works for me. It's called Dancer, and 
    as redundant as this might sound; Dancer, is an effortless web framework. [...]
    It took me more time studying Dancer's features and specs, than the time it 
    took for me to write the whole mini-blog app.
---
source: corn on Hacker News
source_url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2500163 
text: |
    I have - and would second frameworks like Perl Dancer as fantastic examples 
    of what the Perl community is up to these days.
---
source: dragonquest on Hacker News
source_url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2497340
text: |
    Perl is [...]  thriving and making some very cool new stuff
    while steadily negating the argument of being line-noise (Dancer comes to
    mind as an excellent project to both read and use).
---
source: John Imison (@johnimison)
source_url: https://twitter.com/#!/johnimison/status/82113852304658432
text: |
    Thanks to the @PerlDancer guys in IRC for their help.. better than any
    commercial support IMO 
---
source: Bryon Wickland
text: |
    I just spent yesterday with Perl Dancer and was able to get a website 
    going for my Dad's software consulting company in no time at all!
    Thanks for all your efforts on Dancer it is pretty awesome.
--- 
source: Andrew Solomon on cpanratings
source_url: https://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/Dancer#9050
text: |
    [...] the words that come to mind are "quick", "small", "simple" and "clean". 
    There's a close alignment of the packages and methods with the concepts one 
    has in mind when doing web development.
    Formerly a Perl teacher, I never taught web development to the first-year
    students because the learning curve would have been too steep. I think Dancer
    has changed the game and beginners *can* learn Perl web development using
    Dancer. (We'll find out at the beginner's class I'm giving at YAPC in Riga:) 
--- 
source: linportal on reddit
source_url: https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/jbh25/happy_birthday_dancer_two_years_of_the_perl/c2aqamw
text: |
    Perl Dancer is amazing! If you're into web development, definitely give
    Dancer a look, you might be surprised how fun and productive web development
    can be these days. Dancer is two things packed together: it stays out of
    your way if you like that, but also provides you with very powerful
    primitives to get the complex web tasks done in just a few lines of code.
    Highly recommended to both novices and experts!
--- 
source: Rahul Kotamaraju (@rahul_k_v_)
source_url: https://twitter.com/#!/_rahul_k_v_/status/107250793006120960
text: |
    @PerlDancer Excellent framework! Thank you for making it easy for guys like
    me with two left feet who have to dance to make a living.
--- 
source: Mike (@mrpants)
source_url: https://twitter.com/#!/mrpants/status/110552074831400960
text: |
    Forgot to mention @twitpardy's backend is written in #Perl and
    website uses #Dancer. Props to the @perldancer team for the AWESOME
    software!
--- 
source: Dave Cross (@davorg)
source_url: https://twitter.com/#!/davorg/status/115105211240038400
text: |
    I say I spent the afternoon on it, but @perldancer makes web dev so
    simple that it actually took about an hour.
--- 
source: Miguel (@miguelcnf)
source_url: https://twitter.com/#!/miguelcnf/status/144076732805292032
text: |
    @PerlDancer is probably the coolest framework I've used this year!
--- 
source: James Michael DuPont (@h4ck3rm1k3)
source_url: https://twitter.com/#!/h4ck3rm1k3/status/146881515362582528
text: |
   Working on Perl Dancer and Extjs, wow, now programming 
   is fun again!
---
source: CrowdTilt
source_url: https://dsog.info/blog/Perl/Hacking/Technology/2012/08/31/why-did-i-choose-perl-for-crowdtilt/
text: |
    We needed to move really fast and provide a highly scalable, extensible, and
    maintainable product to our customers to enable them to pool money together.
    Using Perl Dancer and CPAN, we were able to prototype our site in a couple
    of days. That same “protoype” has evolved to the current version of the
    website over just a few weeks.
---
source: knighthacker on HN
source_url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4462124
text: |
    Check out Perl Dancer as a web framework for example and you'll 
    see simplicity.
---
source: Christopher Cashell
source_url: https://blogs.perl.org/users/christopher_cashell/2013/02/making-the-case-for-better-perl-articles.html
text: |
     The heavy hitters are Catalyst, Mojolicious, and Dancer. Any one of them
     can be used to build a large-scale web application just as easily as Django
     in Python, or Ruby on Rails.
---
source: JT Smith @ The Game Crafter
source_url: https://advent.perldancer.org/2012/19
text: |
    ...everyone I've shown the codebase to can't believe how tiny everything is.
    You need to write so little code to do so much.
---
source: JT Smith @ The Game Crafter
source_url: https://advent.perldancer.org/2012/19
text: |
     I believe so much in Dancer that I've given talks about it at local Perl
     Monger's groups, have taught a few people how to use it, and have even
     built my next generation web services framework at Plain Black on top of
     it.
---
source: JT Smith @ The Game Crafter
source_url: https://advent.perldancer.org/2012/19
text: |
    When I picked Dancer I wasn't looking for a tool that did everything for me
    out of the box. I was looking for something I could grow into and build the
    app the way I wanted to build it. Dancer is easily extensible without
    getting in my way or limiting me, and that's a big win.
---
source: Will Wolf @ Crowdtilt
source_url: https://advent.perldancer.org/2012/18
text: |
    I loved the simplicity and straight-forwardness of Dancer. It's so
    dead-simple and just gets out of your way. At a startup, you just want to
    pick tools that let you hit the ground running, and Dancer definitely gave
    us that.
---
source: Will Wolf @ Crowdtilt
source_url: https://advent.perldancer.org/2012/18
text: |
    The Dancer community has always been responsive to us when we've had
    questions, or pull requests, or issues. That's really important in any
    software project or piece of technology you use.
---
source: Zahir Lalani
source_url: https://lists.preshweb.co.uk/pipermail/dancer-users/2015-March/004426.html
text: |
    Dancer2 is just amazing - the number of add-on modules is great and I can 
    get on with the application without worrying about the nitty gritty.
---
source: Zahir Lalani
source_url: https://lists.preshweb.co.uk/pipermail/dancer-users/2015-March/004426.html
text: |
    Dancer2 seemed to really stand out [...] After a couple of weeks I have the 
    beginnings of a complex web app which is n+1 scaleable, which has a REST API
    module and will also have a messaging and workflow tool with a video render
    farm  - all done in a single language and framework.
---
source: Zahir Lalani
source_url: https://lists.preshweb.co.uk/pipermail/dancer-users/2015-March/004426.html
text: |
    Its damn quick to develop, its quick to run, even a colleague who is helping
    do the templating (and a php developer) is converted!
---
source: Rob Boerman
source_url: https://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/Dancer#9022
text: |
    Dancer is incredibly easy to learn, yet very powerful.
    Dancer is THE fastest way to develop web applications, hands down. 
---
source: Andrew Soloman
source_url: https://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/Dancer#9050
text: |
    Formerly a Perl teacher, I never taught web development to the first-year
    students because the learning curve would have been too steep. I think 
    Dancer has changed the game and beginners *can* learn Perl web development
    using Dancer. 
---
source: Tyler Durden
source_url: https://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/Dancer#9070
text: |
    Dancer web framework is all about making simple things fun, and complex 
    things possible. If you're into web development, make sure not to 
    skip Dancer! [...] 
    The team behind the project is very friendly and willing to help beginners
    to get up to speed.
---
source: Joshua Keroes
source_url: https://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/Dancer#9740
text: |
   Web development is fun again thanks to Dancer. I spend less time breaking 
   things and more time solving problems. More time getting to the fun part 
   of coding.