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> On an unrelated note, it would be pretty cool to have extremely slowly moving and stable languages, projects and tooling out there. To see maybe 3 or 4 releas

by uhtred 4y ago

> On an unrelated note, it would be pretty cool to have extremely slowly moving and stable languages, projects and tooling out there. To see maybe 3 or 4 releases in my entire lifetime and to have the next generation take over the burden. Then again, seeing how COBOL and FORTRAN are now, perhaps that sense of grandeur isn't worth the effort and old projects should just die. Isn't that Perl?

KronisLV 4y ago
Kind of, though the whole Raku thing made everything a tad wonky. Some of the nicer Perl software that I use currently is BackupPPC, which has been pretty solid despite the slightly subpar UI: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc And another interesting piece that I can think of was RemoteBox, which was pretty niche but still worked nicely: https://remotebox.knobgoblin.org.uk/?page=about https://remotebox.knobgoblin.org.uk/?page=about From the more popular packages, one should also mention exiftool, which was written in Perl: https://github.com/exiftool/exiftool https://github.com/exiftool/exiftool Probably also a lot of other pieces of software, though it doesn't seem like there's much of a large/active community around Perl, for example, have a look at: https://github.com/trending/perl?since=monthly https://github.com/trending/perl?since=monthly and then compare it to something like: https://github.com/trending/go?since=monthly https://github.com/trending/go?since=monthly In regards to other contenders, I think FreePascal/Lazarus should also be mentioned, since they're pretty stable, capable and perhaps some of the better ways to write desktop software!
- uhtred 4y ago
  I had no idea exiftool was writen in Perl!
  - KronisLV 4y ago
    Here's a few other tools that are written in Perl, sorted by GitHub popularity: https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/Perl.md https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/... Actually, that repo has lists like this for most languages: https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking

by uhtred 4y ago

KronisLV 4y ago

Kind of, though the whole Raku thing made everything a tad wonky. Some of the nicer Perl software that I use currently is BackupPPC, which has been pretty solid despite the slightly subpar UI: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc And another interesting piece that I can think of was RemoteBox, which was pretty niche but still worked nicely: https://remotebox.knobgoblin.org.uk/?page=about https://remotebox.knobgoblin.org.uk/?page=about From the more popular packages, one should also mention exiftool, which was written in Perl: https://github.com/exiftool/exiftool https://github.com/exiftool/exiftool Probably also a lot of other pieces of software, though it doesn't seem like there's much of a large/active community around Perl, for example, have a look at: https://github.com/trending/perl?since=monthly https://github.com/trending/perl?since=monthly and then compare it to something like: https://github.com/trending/go?since=monthly https://github.com/trending/go?since=monthly In regards to other contenders, I think FreePascal/Lazarus should also be mentioned, since they're pretty stable, capable and perhaps some of the better ways to write desktop software!

uhtred 4y ago
I had no idea exiftool was writen in Perl!
- KronisLV 4y ago
  Here's a few other tools that are written in Perl, sorted by GitHub popularity: https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/Perl.md https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/... Actually, that repo has lists like this for most languages: https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking