Mojolicious
Shares rank 50 of 63 web frameworks by recommenders
Recommended as a sleek, modern web framework for building web applications in Perl, with few external dependencies beyond Perl's standard libraries.
Recommended as a sleek, modern web framework for building web applications in Perl, with few external dependencies beyond Perl's standard libraries.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Modern, sleek Perl web framework
“things like Moose, DBIC, Catalyst, Mojolicious, etc meant you could write pretty modern stuff with it”
Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “What Killed Perl?” “And then the modern slim version of it, Mojolicious.”
Comment from 16 Dec 2025 in “Ruby and Its Neighbors: Perl” “Mojolicious which is a sleek web framework”
Comment from 26 Aug 2026 in “How HN: Qisutu – an open-source, self-hosted ticketing and service desk” Writing web applications in Perl
“things like Moose, DBIC, Catalyst, Mojolicious, etc meant you could write pretty modern stuff with it”
Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “What Killed Perl?” “I like to write web applications with Perl and Mojolicious”
Comment from 5 May 2026 in “Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?”
Other web frameworks people recommend
The four most recommended other web frameworks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruby on Rails | 337 | 145 | 70% | 12 | 14 yrs38 owners | Approved |
| Django | 277 | 97 | 74% | 12 | 15 yrs38 owners | Approved |
| Next.js | 127 | 256 | 33% | 12 | 3 yrs6 owners | — |
| Phoenix Framework | 85 | 11 | 89% | 12 | 8 yrs7 owners | Approved |
| MojoliciousThis page | 6 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
5 of the 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Mojolicious which is a sleek web framework”
“I like to write web applications with Perl and Mojolicious”
“It had very few external dependencies beyond Perl standard libs”
“And then the modern slim version of it, Mojolicious.”
“things like Moose, DBIC, Catalyst, Mojolicious, etc meant you could write pretty modern stuff with it”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.