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Can you give a specific example?

• doublerabbit 2y ago
  I can't recall what modules my boss created but he had heart attack and passed away. So his modules are now left unmaintained. Fortunately, new version realises of perl don't break CPAN modules that much. But there have been a decrease and of programmers that have either moved on or are passing away. Without a younger audience not to maintain they're left to rot. Python will encounter the same when a new language hits the block in years to come.
  • pkphilip 2y ago
    This is terribly sad to hear. Perl used to be so ubiquitous and it is sad to see that it is rapidly fading away. I know of no one in my friend circle who has EVER used Perl.
    • E39M5S62 2y ago
      Perl has been my go-to language for years now. Just yesterday I needed to write a little tool to stream some scraped metrics into a ClickHouse database. I was shocked to see that there aren't first-class Perl libraries for ClickHouse, and those on CPAN are seemingly fairly old/unmaintained. That's a real bummer. I could always go with the MySQL interface, but I'd prefer to stay native if possible.