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I have seen this said about almost any non-mainstream language from Haskell to Perl. I think it comes down to these languages are mostly used by enthusiasts on

by goto11 7y ago

I have seen this said about almost any non-mainstream language from Haskell to Perl. I think it comes down to these languages are mostly used by enthusiasts on their own projects, without the daily realities of evolving business requirements and a legacy code base built by mediocre developers.

_bxg1 7y ago
I think there's a lot of truth to this bias
deckard1 7y ago
Perl has never been non-mainstream. It's possible the average age of HN is too young to be aware of this today, but Perl powered the web during the 1990s and early 2000s. There are plenty of legacy Perl code bases out there, even ones that have nothing to do with the web (think data munging and ETL).
- pjmlp 7y ago
  I met some of a couple of times, rewriting production Perl and bash scripts into Groovy and Java, shortly after being assigned maintenance roles for them, because "it is better" (aka "I have no idea and only know Java").