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I think your comment on wages is astute, and it's the same everywhere. There are Perl jobs around, but they're on legacy codebases in (parts of) organizations t
by tacostakohashi 9y ago
I think your comment on wages is astute, and it's the same everywhere. There are Perl jobs around, but they're on legacy codebases in (parts of) organizations that are basically too dysfunctional / under-resourced / incompetent to upgrade them, and if you take the job you'll just be putting out fires and stagnating.
When you take that into account, the salary would need to be at a real premium to make it worthwhile, and the premium just isn't there.
- voidmain0001 9y agoThe 2017 SO Developer Survey has Perl in 6th place for highest compensation in the world. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-top-paying-technologies-by-region https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-to... Interestingly, Perl places 5th in the USA for highest compensation, and it doesn't even make the lists of France, Germany, India, and the UK.
- tacostakohashi 9y agoHmm, I am pretty surprised by that, but I'll take it at face value. I suspect there is too much else going on for a comparison of salaries by language to be meaningful. Those Perl programmers are probably highly paid mainly because they have 20ish years of experience, and lots of other valuable Linux/Unix experience. There are probably lots of fresh graduate and entry level JavaScript / Java / C++ developers bringing down those averages. I always get a good laugh when I see job ads for a "Junior Perl developer" paying 25k GBP or something. They stopped making those 20 years ago.