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ab_testing | 7 months ago

Wheee does perk fit in this scheme of dying languages. I see fewer and fewer new packages written in Perl and lots of unmaintained packages in Cpan. It seems obvious that the language is dying a slow death .

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pjc50|7 months ago

The 5 -> 6 transition took out a lot of its momentum, and it was gradually eclipsed by two other dynamic weakly typed languages which were less alarming to read: Python and Javascript.

AnimalMuppet|7 months ago

"Less alarming to read". Sir, that is beautifully said.

reddit_clone|7 months ago

Sad thing is Perl6/Raku is a nice kitchen-sync language with some pretty sophisticated constructs!

Unfortunately it has no mind-share.