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IIRC Craigslist was written in Perl but that's the only high traffic site that comes to mind.
by smaili 6y ago
IIRC Craigslist was written in Perl but that's the only high traffic site that comes to mind.
- 1-more 6y agoI know some fantasy sports site was, maybe CBS? I had a UX designer colleague who had worked on that.
- hnlmorg 6y agoA surprisingly large number of fantasy sports sites are. Perl is everywhere, it's just not widely publicised because of the stigma attached to the language.
- ori_b 6y agoduckduckgo, as far as I recall.
- petethered 6y agoDuck Duck Go and Booking.com were/are Perl backends.
- chubot 6y agoI think they still write everything in Perl, and they employ Larry Wall (or they did several years ago, last I heard)
- Twirrim 6y agoThe Amazon retail site is written in perl (at least the presentation layer still is, you can find mason references still in the HTML source if you go looking, don't know how much else behind it is in perl). https://metacpan.org/pod/Mason https://metacpan.org/pod/Mason (if you're not familiar with Mason)
- autarch 6y agoActually, that's Mason 2. Amazon use(s|d) the OG Mason - https://metacpan.org/release/HTML-Mason https://metacpan.org/release/HTML-Mason
- cutler 6y agoThe fashion retailer Net-A-Porter has been a Perl shop since 2000. Haven't checked if that's still the case. They used to employ quite a few leading lights in the UK Perl community a few years ago.
- redis_mlc 6y agoimdb.com is perl. Most of the ad network backend sites are perl, including a lot of Yahoo.