3 ms·

I love perl and simultaneously totally at-peace with it being "dead"...but it really isn't. Packages I care about are updated regularly. The core release is dep

by newaccount2021 5y ago

I love perl and simultaneously totally at-peace with it being "dead"...but it really isn't. Packages I care about are updated regularly. The core release is deployed regularly. There are numerous meaningful improvements discussed on p5p. Fastmail, my email provider, runs on perl. You can get perl jobs in 2021. The community is smaller now but more dedicated - not growing, but not dead either. In any case, none of the moderately popular languages will die anytime soon...between the platforms that still run on them, and the geezers who have the time in retirement to volunteer, tools will survive

davidw 5y ago
> none of the moderately popular languages will die anytime soon Correct. As long as people are using stuff in production, the high costs of switching ensure that some maintenance will keep happening. That's why we still have things like COBOL, even though I don't think much of anyone is all that enthusiastic about it.