[niccl]

One thing not mentioned in TFA but I came across following the 'we're hiring' link to the Back-end Engineer role. They use PERL (v5). That certainly surprised me!

[andrewl-hn]

DDG has been around for a long-long time, and when it started Perl was an old fashioned choice but still very reasonable. Even if they moved to other languages they probably still have old bits of Perl code running somewhere.

For about first 5-10 years of its existence DuckDuckGo also promoted their use of Perl, and afaik they contributed to Perl development.

[yegg]

We're still supportive, donating to the Perl foundation the last two years: https://duckduckgo.com/donations

[mixmastamyk]

I applied with twenty years experience + with perl and was unceremoniously denied quickly. Looking for unicorn or ghost job, take your pick.