# Mojolicious

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Mojolicious and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a sleek, modern web framework for building web applications in Perl, with few external dependencies beyond Perl's standard libraries.

## Why people recommend it

- Modern, sleek Perl web framework (3 comments): "things like Moose, DBIC, Catalyst, Mojolicious, etc meant you could write pretty modern stuff with it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983489)) "And then the modern slim version of it, Mojolicious." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46295272)) "Mojolicious which is a sleek web framework" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452970))
- Writing web applications in Perl (2 comments): "things like Moose, DBIC, Catalyst, Mojolicious, etc meant you could write pretty modern stuff with it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983489)) "I like to write web applications with Perl and Mojolicious" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022679))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Ruby on Rails](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ruby-on-rails.md): 337 recommend
- [Django](https://hackerapproved.com/p/django.md): 277 recommend
- [Next.js](https://hackerapproved.com/p/next-js.md): 127 recommend
- [Phoenix Framework](https://hackerapproved.com/p/phoenix.md): 85 recommend
- [Laravel](https://hackerapproved.com/p/laravel.md): 71 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Mojolicious", https://hackerapproved.com/p/mojolicious/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).