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Some workers complains about their tools. Other just use whatever, fix problems, and make money.

• scarface74 7y ago
  Until you need your next job and you see spending 10 years doing Perl was detrimental to your career...
  • forinti 7y ago
    Perl has never been central to nor a requirement of my jobs, but it has always helped me immensely. -As a web developer, I use it to write all sorts of small webservices and file conversion utilities; -As a embedded system developer, I used it to integrate with other services in the network; -As a sysadmin and DBA, I use it a lot to parse all sorts of data. The downside is that I have to put up with the little jokes and criticisms. Then again, more than once I've been called because I was the only one who could do some job fast enough.
  • petre 7y ago
    At least it's fun to write modern Perl code compared to Js which is kind of annoying. Raku is also a very nice language but it's still too slow and hasn't gained much traction. Someone who's proficient in Perl can probably become productive in Python in less than a month.
    • scarface74 7y ago
      I was traditionally the farthest thing from a JS callback hell fanboy, but, using modern JS with async/await and “classes” (yes I realize it’s syntactic sugar, prototypical inheritances, yada yada yada), it’s not bad. I haven’t played with TypeScript in a few years, but I’m looking to get back into it. But why fool with Perl at all - especially Raku since it’s basically a new language that doesn’t have the widespread support of Python or God forbid PHP?
      • petre 7y ago
        One fools with Perl if there's legacy Perl infrastructure in production. One does not simply rewrite 20+ kloc of working Perl code into something else just because it's cool. Mojolicious is a good and elegant web framework for modern Perl. I haven't seen anything comparable except maybe in Ruby.
        • scarface74 7y ago
          But specifically, why move to Raku for new projects?
          • benbristow 7y ago
            I personally think Raku is a poor choice for new projects. I've never heard of anything relatively popular built with it. I get the feeling it's quite a hobbyist platform at this point. I'd rather use Perl 5 than Raku at the moment. At least Perl 5 has CPAN which is still somewhat alive.
            • petre 7y ago
              It's a bit like Julia, or Java 1.3, only without the marketing behind it. It's quite capable, definitely not a hobbyst project. Too slow and missing a lot of libraries though. And yes, Perl is still a better choice.
          • petre 7y ago
            Because of the rational math. For what it's worth it could replace Cobol, although I don't know if that's such a great thing. And maybe because it's a well designed language and a joy to program in, but we already have Ruby for that.
        • benbristow 7y ago
          I'm more of a Ruby fan than a Python fan, but Python has Django, Flask, Tornado and others. https://steelkiwi.com/blog/top-10-python-web-frameworks-to-learn/ https://steelkiwi.com/blog/top-10-python-web-frameworks-to-l...