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I started a new Perl project 7 years ago and it has been an ecstatic experience for me. It is basically a text processor and HTML generator, so Perl has all the
by forgotmypw17 3y ago
I started a new Perl project 7 years ago and it has been an ecstatic experience for me. It is basically a text processor and HTML generator, so Perl has all the features I need. I am so happy, and I'm not even using anything beyond 5.010. I'm at 32K+ LOC now, and I'm also using the project to teach programming to Ukrainian kids over Zoom.
Number of breaking changes I have experienced in these 7 years? 0.
Number of times I've had any significant issues setting up a new deployment? 0.
It may not be as popular, but it certainly continues to work well.
- Enk1du 3y agoThere's some nice stuff in the new features and everybody has their favourites. Some like the subroutine signatures, but I'm a big fan of the hash slices and postfix dereferencing in v5.20. https://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/category/perl/new-features/ https://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/category/perl/new-f...
- wazoox 3y agoYep. The fact that 100% of the code I've written in Perl since the beginning of this century still works just fine year after year with each new release is an immense bonus. I have deployment scripts written on Debian 3 still running in cron "as is" 20 years later, zero maintenance. Try that with Python, PHP or Ruby...
- csdvrx 3y agoThat's what I liked about Windows too. I had to move to Linux, but with wine I know I will able able to use some binaries forever. If I write something that I plan to reuse or need again later, I will write it in perl
- SomeoneFromCA 3y agoYou may like Haiku, which maintains backwards compatibility with ancient beos while still being posix system. Never used it myself, just repeating what heard.