I agree with Discipulus that #3 is the only sane choice for applications that are either large or likely to grow. I don’t really recommend Template::Toolkit. This is not because I don’t like it, I do, it’s really wonderful, but it’s so deep that it crosses the boundary of template engine and moves into mini-language. It’s also very slow compared to some of the alternatives, including Template::Alloy which can use Template::Toolkit syntax; so it’s the way to go if you want that. Text::Xslate feels shallow by comparison but it’s closer to the ideal of a view (only does presentation and the most basic logic/code and it is variable context ignorant which is kind of unPerly) and it’s terribly fast. As far as that goes, speed in the template layer is not always a prime concern. Depends on the application. Both TT and TX cache templates for performance improvement too.

Update: typo fix, grazie mille, Discipulus.