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Perl developers that depend on XS [1] for extending their code's behavior will have a "lovely" time with this lol! Here's an example https://github.com/adriaan
by stefanos82 5mo ago
Perl developers that depend on XS [1] for extending their code's behavior will have a "lovely" time with this lol!
Here's an example https://github.com/adriaandens/XSamples/blob/master/XSamples.xs https://github.com/adriaandens/XSamples/blob/master/XSamples...
[1] https://perldoc.perl.org/perlxs https://perldoc.perl.org/perlxs
- nine_k 5mo agoWhile at it: How much Perl code is still running in production? I only know about two large Perl codebases, at Debain, and at booking.com.
- giancarlostoro 5mo agoI thought CraigsList and maybe eBay?
- kmoser 5mo agoIt seems eBay ditched Perl a long time ago: https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/03/01/sacrificial-architecture-learning-from-abandoned-systems/ https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/03/01/sacrificial-architectu...
- kjs3 5mo agoNot 'large Perl codebases', but I know an awful lot of 'small Perl codebases', relatively speaking, doing the sort of sysadmin stuff Perl was designed to do. It's still a great scripting language, and there's a lot of folks who didn't get the memo that cool kids don't use Perl any more.
- indigodaddy 5mo agoCpanel, IMDb(?)
- darrenf 5mo agoDuckDuckGo.
- thrance 5mo agoAh! I was wondering why such a small language had syntax highlighting on Github, but it was just an alias. That explains it!