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Perl still relevant in 2023/24? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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hi, i was interested if perl is still relevant in this day and age. Perl has been on the decline for a very long time now. Perl 6 (now named 'raku) not being backwards compatible with perl 5 code made the already small perl community even smaller by splitting it in half. A good example is lisp with it's thousands of different dialects.

Is it still worth using or is it bound to legacy software forever? Like cobol.

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[–] 7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80 1 points 1 year ago

I still use Perl for most things -- it's my go-to language when I have to get something done quickly. And quickly doesn't have to mean small one-liner scripts.

My biggest reason for using it is that mod_perl is still blazingly fast.