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Is PERL dead yet?

• adastra22 2y ago
  PERL is undead.
• hardburn 2y ago
  No
• cies 2y ago
  I asked ChatGPT -- Please estimate the popularity of these languages, relative to the most popular one (that gets 100%). Base your answer on community activity on different platforms (stackoverflow, reddit, hacker news, dev.to, github) and the number of books available and sold: COBOL, Perl, PHP, BASIC, TCL, ColdFusion. Estimated popularity: PHP: 100% (reference) Perl: 30% COBOL: 25% BASIC: 10% TCL: 8% ColdFusion: 5% (I consider all of these dead, or, "in maintenance mode")
  • rafark 2y ago
    Why php though? Php is as old as java and very popular and constantly updated.
    • cies 2y ago
      we need a reference... and PHP is the biggest language that has clearly better options available in it's space. JS is not too pretty either, but I understand many believe it's the only lang the browser understands.