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tl;dr - Perl 7.0 is going to be v5.32 but with different, saner, more modern defaults. Perl was great 20 years ago for basic scripts. Where is it still used to

• toast0 6y ago
  Perl continues to be great for basic scripts. Why change and throw away 20 years of experience? The only thing I've noticed that's lacking is decent protobuf support.
  • radiator 6y ago
    Some people would consider that a good thing.
    • toast0 6y ago
      I assume you're saying it's a good thing there's no reasonable protobuf support? The problem is I have access to data I'd like to manipulate, but it's in protobuf, so my options are: a) somehow convince Google to let me access Nest data through a proper API b) get a different thermostat c) magically get the perl protobuf libraries to actually work d) write just enough protobuf parsing (and possibly generating) to read my data, and curse e) use another language to parse the data (ugh) (I guess you could like to throw out 20 years of experience)
  • smueller1234 6y ago
    I think what you're looking for is this: https://metacpan.org/pod/Google::ProtocolBuffers::Dynamic https://metacpan.org/pod/Google::ProtocolBuffers::Dynamic
• cutler 6y ago
  Most of Perl's virtues were inherited by Ruby, not Python. Hell, Python doesn't even have a regex operator.