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I always find it interesting when people assume that just because something is out of their awareness is dead… I learned Perl not too long ago and it is an abs
by _benj 2y ago
I always find it interesting when people assume that just because something is out of their awareness is dead…
I learned Perl not too long ago and it is an absolute beast at text processing, a lot less annoying than Python and pip install and cpan seems to have everything in it, implemented multiple times.
The language doesn’t hold your hand at all, doesn’t have tooling like fancy LSP and such, but it is quite usable. With that said, I’d probably hate to use it in a team since you can do the same thing in a dozen different ways!
- binary132 2y agoMy first job was on a Perl + MySQL stack, and honestly the codebase was pretty straightforward and “C-like”. But yeah, it can definitely produce some incomprehensible eldritch monstrosities.
- oalders 2y agoThe good news is that there is some LSP support now. I recommend PerlNavigator if this is something that interests you: https://github.com/bscan/PerlNavigator https://github.com/bscan/PerlNavigator
- _benj 2y agoOh wow! That looks fantastic!
- smonff 2y agoThere are ways to enforce good practices and collective code style. Take a look at perltidy and perlcritic.