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Perl or Go for sure.
by vgy7ujm 8y ago
Perl or Go for sure.
- wawhal 8y agoNever used Perl. Would love to learn it. Just went through the overview. Looks like a high-level scripting language which inherits a lot from C. After all the research, I am still highly inclined towards Golang. Since you said "Perl or Go", you seem to have used Golang. How does Perl compare with it?
- vgy7ujm 8y agoPerl has decades worth of high quality libraries to do heavy lifting. https://metacpan.org https://metacpan.org You can get away with easy scripting for creating significant programs. UNIX commandline and Perl is a match made in heaven. Using Golang will demand significantly more effort when doing more complex stuff but will give you concurrency, easier deploys/multi-platform support and better performance if doing CPU intensive stuff.
- vgy7ujm 8y agoI use Go for what I previously maybe used C for. Thanks to the quick compile time and good tooling Go almost feels like a scripting language when developing but especially for UNIXy stuff it can't replace Perl for me.
- vgy7ujm 8y agoFor learning I would highly recommend the following books: Beginning Perl by Ovid. Modern Perl by chromatic. There are a lot of other good Perl books but some of them are getting old and it is better to already know a bit before reading so one can separate good from dated etc.
- wawhal 8y agoNice. Thanks.