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Is anybody here using perl 6 in production at the moment? Or perl 5 for that matter?
by bigbluedots 9y ago
Is anybody here using perl 6 in production at the moment? Or perl 5 for that matter?
- zimpenfish 9y agoPerl 5? Off the top of my head: Deutsche Bank, Broadbean, Photobox, BBC, Booking.com, Net-A-Porter. I'm sure a more enthusiastic Perl user can provide a surfeit of examples.
- vgy7ujm 9y agoDuckDuckGo, ZipRecruiter
- theOnliest 9y agoAll of FastMail is in Perl5 (minus the Cyrus parts, which are in C).
- latenightcoding 9y agoNVIDIA, Shutterstock, Symantec, Amadeus IT Group, Bank of America
- ryanianian 9y agoA surprisingly huge amount of the Amazon.com codebase is Perl 5. The various back-ends are primarily in Java, but most front-end code is Perl/Mason.
- autarch 9y agoWow! Still? As one of the primary maintainers of Mason for many years I enjoyed telling non-technical friends that they used my work every time they went to Amazon. But I'd kind of assumed that was no longer the case these days. Apparently I can keep telling them the same thing!
- ryanianian 9y agoMason is great. Thanks for your work! They are phasing it out but very slowly. It'll probably be around forever on internal tools.
- autarch 9y agoCool, I'm glad it's still helping people. For the record, I was not the creator of the package. That was Jon Swartz. I did a lot of work on it for quite a few years in the early 2000s and maintained it for quite some time after that.
- lizmat 9y agoIf you would have actually read the blog post, you would have seen a "Rakudo Perl 6 in production" section in it.
- gaius 9y agoThe section in which obscure companies are using it for trivial tasks? Sorry if that sounds harsh but in Python, Ruby, even Perl 5 large companies that bet the farm on the language are ten a penny
- dragonwriter 9y agoYes, old established language are in heavier use at large, established organizations. By that metric, COBOL is awesome.
- gaius 9y agoThere are real companies doing real work in newer languages like Swift and Go too. Perl 6 is a toy in comparison. Zoffix Znet I use it at $work for throw-away one-liners Awesome
- cygx 9y agoThere are real companies doing real work in newer languages like Swift and Go too Apples and oranges, given that Swift and Go were started with the deep pockets of Apple and Google behind them. Look at Ruby for a more fair comparison: It took 10 years to take off, stayed "hot" for ~3 years and has been in slow decline ever since.
- marcusramberg 9y agoI work full time as a Perl developer working on charter travel sites (not booking) using Mojolicious.
- mirchibajji 9y agoA lot of zoopla.co.uk backend is Perl 5.
- jsymolon 9y agoI've got billion dollars in revenue running on a Perl 5 batch system.
- Steeeve 9y agoI have perl5 in production and we are pushing to migrate that codebase to python - for the plain and simple fact that it's getting harder and harder to find people with any interest in perl5.
- extortionist 9y agoMy office has at least a few hundred thousand lines of perl 5 (v 5.8.0) running on legacy systems, though we've switched to python for new development. We won't be using perl 6, and suggesting it in the office would get some good laughs out of everyone who's had to work on that codebase. I'll still write perl when I need a quick one-off script to solve the kind of problem it's good for, like throwing a bunch of regexes at a bunch of text files.
- kamaal 9y agoPretty much anybody using Unix is using Perl one way or the other. Its a bit like C. The language is so neatly integrated with the OS that its hard to beat it.
- vgy7ujm 9y agoThis is very true. Not many languages feel so "Unixy" as Perl.
- ioddly 9y agoAfter reading this I couldn't think of anything I personally use that depends on perl, so I tried `pacman -Rs perl` to see what needed it. There's a surprising amount of packages that depend on it - openssl, git, automake...