I'm surprised CGI is still used when there's alternatives like FastCGI which are a little smoother. I'm not a Perl guy, only Perl I ever did is try out Mojolicious which is a sleek web framework (looked to me like it at the time anyway) I have this habit of judging programming languages by what their web frameworks look like, and so I build small sample web apps, APIs and what not just to see what coding in said language is like. I didn't hate Mojolicious, but I don't see a future in Perl for myself, my whole career has been C# and Python (and a half dozen others).