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There are two things here, one is lack of funding, and the other is lack of technical talent working on the project. To a certain degree the former can compensa
by ezyang 15y ago
There are two things here, one is lack of funding, and the other is lack of technical talent working on the project. To a certain degree the former can compensate for the latter, since if you're a company and you believe enough in your language to think that investing staff hours in improving it is a net-win for you, you'll do it. As it turns out, attracting and keeping technical talent is hard.
- erikpukinskis 15y agoThere seems to be something to this. Google didn't hire a random hacker to work on Python. Guido just couldn't not work on Python, and inevitably, if you are that kind of hacker, there's a company somewhere who benefits massively from having you in their office every day. Who, besides Larry, can't drag themselves away from hacking on Perl? I'm assuming those people are all employed. If not, we should get them a job!
- draegtun 15y agoWhile they don't all work on the core, development on each perl release is very healthy. From Perl 5.14.0 release delta: Perl 5.14.0 represents one year of development since Perl 5.12.0 and contains nearly 550,000 lines of changes across nearly 3,000 files from 150 authors and committers. ref: https://metacpan.org/module/perl5140delta https://metacpan.org/module/perl5140delta And since the 5.14.0 release on 14th May this year development has continued unabated: Current release (5.14) * 5.14.1 on 2011-06-17 * 5.14.2 on 2011-09-26 Patch old release (5.12) * 5.12.4 on 2011-06-20 Development for next release (5.16) * 5.15.0 on 2011-06-20 * 5.15.1 on 2011-07-20 * 5.15.2 on 2011-08-21 * 5.15.3 on 2011-09-21 * 5.15.4 on 2011-10-20 ref: Above dates from MetaCPAN and excludes release candidates versions.