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Even now I start web-projects with Perl. It's not "cool", it's not "sexy", but there package collection (http://cpan.org/ http://cpan.org/) is __huge__. I fin
by stevekemp 9y ago
Even now I start web-projects with Perl.
It's not "cool", it's not "sexy", but there package collection (http://cpan.org/ http://cpan.org/) is __huge__.
I find it unlikely that new people will suddenly rediscover perl, in the golang/node.js/python-centric state the world is in. But the people who love it, do continue to love it, and do continue to do useful and essential things with it.
- forinti 9y agoCPAN has never failed me. I love it.
- cutler 9y agoThe CPAN argument for choosing Perl was relevant about 10 years ago but if you look at http://modulecounts.com http://modulecounts.com you'll find Ruby, Python, PHP, JS and Java have an order of magnitude more libraries to choose from. CPAN is not __huge__ by today's standards. Drupal alone has the same number of modules. The declining community also means many of the libraries on CPAN are unlikely to be maintained.
- i336_ 9y agoYes, "stableperl" maintains a small number of backported bugfixes to Perl 5.22: http://blog.schmorp.de/2015-06-06-a-stable-perl.html http://blog.schmorp.de/2015-06-06-a-stable-perl.html The author cites a couple of issues as the motivation behind the release.
- wazoox 9y agoHum, depends upon your definition of what's a module. from cpan.org front page: The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) currently has 186,953 Perl modules in 35,278 distributions, written by 13,095 authors, mirrored on 248 servers.
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