Thanks to the @PerlDancer guys in IRC for their help.. better than any commercial support IMO - John Imison (@johnimison)

[...] 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:) - Andrew Solomon on cpanratings

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. - Zahir Lalani

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. - Joshua Keroes

Just wrapped up an eight hour scrum task in 90 minutes. I'm really enjoying using Dancer. Awesome, awesome, awesome! - talexb

Hacking around using @PerlDancer and enjoying it immensely. - deepakg

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! - linportal on reddit

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. - Joshua Barratt

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. - Andrew Soloman

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). - dragonquest on Hacker News

For a simple framework I suggest Dancer. Great thing, it made me stop hating web development. - tsjr

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. - Tyler Durden

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. - Christopher Cashell

Dancer is incredibly easy to learn, yet very powerful. Dancer is THE fastest way to develop web applications, hands down. - Rob Boerman

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. - JT Smith @ The Game Crafter

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. - punkish

It's fast! It's simple! It's minimalistic! I really like it! Thanks. - Łukasz Metys Lewandowski

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. - Zahir Lalani

@PerlDancer is probably the coolest framework I've used this year! - Miguel (@miguelcnf)

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! - James Aitken

Dancer is the first web framework that hasn't given me an aneurysm. #perl - Michael G Schwern (@schwern)

Check out Perl Dancer as a web framework for example and you'll see simplicity. - knighthacker on HN

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. - Will Wolf @ Crowdtilt

Of all the light-weight frameworks, Dancer was the nicest to work with when I went through to evaluate them... - Daniel Pittman

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. - Damian Krotkine

Dancer is the first web framework I haven't wanted to pee on :-) - Schwern

@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. - Rahul Kotamaraju (@rahul_k_v_)

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. - Will Wolf @ Crowdtilt

Trying out @PerlDancer as a basis for building web apps. Very nice. - talexb

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. - Simon Wistow

Working on Perl Dancer and Extjs, wow, now programming is fun again! - James Michael DuPont (@h4ck3rm1k3)

Its damn quick to develop, its quick to run, even a colleague who is helping do the templating (and a php developer) is converted! - Zahir Lalani

Forgot to mention @twitpardy's backend is written in #Perl and website uses #Dancer. Props to the @perldancer team for the AWESOME software! - Mike (@mrpants)

I say I spent the afternoon on it, but @perldancer makes web dev so simple that it actually took about an hour. - Dave Cross (@davorg)

I have - and would second frameworks like Perl Dancer as fantastic examples of what the Perl community is up to these days. - corn on Hacker News

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. - CrowdTilt

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. - JT Smith @ The Game Crafter

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. - Bryon Wickland

...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. - JT Smith @ The Game Crafter

Just downloaded and ran #Perl Dancer. Really curious about it. It looks amazing. - @juliofraire

@PerlDancer is the easiest way to write webapps. One day from idea to implemention. Fantastic work. - alexkalderimis