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> But, more importantly, I will never apply for a job that lists Perl. It's just a relic from the past. Good. More Perl jobs for me then. Although I kind of go
by petre 6y ago
> But, more importantly, I will never apply for a job that lists Perl. It's just a relic from the past.
Good. More Perl jobs for me then. Although I kind of got bored with Perl and would probably enjoy coding in Ruby or D or even Crystal.
- gwbas1c 6y agoThat's not the issue. The bigger issue is avoiding jobs where the management chose an "impossible" stack. IE, a stack where the technology choices actively impede productivity. Unless the job basically involves modernizing something that's been around for a few decades, why would anyone do new development in an outdated language?
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- petre 6y agoMost Perl jobs today involve either maintenance or modernizing some existing codebase. I wouldn't start a new project in Perl, other than simple scrips that I wouldn't write in bash or a sub 5k loc web service, but I'd probably rather do that one in Node.js.