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Yes, but in the long term everything will break, no matter what language one uses. The question is how long is long? I suppose when talking about PLs it's propo

• thatwasunusual 6y ago
  > I suppose when talking about PLs it's proportional to amount of working code in the wild. It comes down to the number of people that knows, or shows interest in, any given programming language. You are right that you might need to diverge from your language of choice at one point, even rewrite your whole application (which is scary enough), but you should do that at a point where a different language is "at top", or at least trending towards "the top." Perl is trending downwards in all statistics,[1][2][3] except maybe statistics that has to do with salaries, because it's hard to find people who can do the job. This is not a bashing of Perl itself: I love Perl, but I also see where it's failing, which is why I make use of several different programming languages to get a job done, if necessary. At the end of the day, Perl is just another tool in the toolbox, and as a boss you need to employ people that are familiar with the most popular (not necessarily the best, sadly) tools to get the job done. [1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2011-01-01%202020-12-31&q=%2Fm%2F05zrn https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2011-01-01%202... [2] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=perl https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=perl [3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/793628/worldwide-developer-survey-most-used-languages/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/793628/worldwide-develop...