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Ok, then it hasn't died gracefully, but sound like it's on its way to join these other "undead languages" where almost no new code is being developed and it's g
by rob74 5y ago
Ok, then it hasn't died gracefully, but sound like it's on its way to join these other "undead languages" where almost no new code is being developed and it's getting harder and harder to find competent developers?
- rurban 5y agoAll the competent developers were driven away by its maintainers. Who themselves have no idea how to implement the spec'd features missing. So, yes. It's dead. There's a lot of insignificant noise about perl 7, drama and the new object system, but if you look at the heads and devs it's getting worse and worse.
- noisy_boy 5y agoAs someone who has written a fair bit of Perl, lots of us have moved to other languages like Java/Scala/Python etc. I could still write Perl if I needed to but having dealt with maintaining a "large" system written in Perl and having used aforementioned "proper" object oriented languages since then, I would restrict using Perl to simple/small scripts, given that I had no other choice.