Perl still relevant in 2023/24? - eviltoast

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.

  • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I wish python was not indentation aware. It has discouraged me from learning it.

    lol, then you just don’t like Python. You can’t disassociate the two things.

        • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Correct. I don’t think we’re disagreeing. The language has one deal-breaker to me and that’s all I need to know.

          That’s like saying “you won’t be friends with Bob because he’s likes to go to smoking-friendly places all the time and you don’t? BUT YOU DON’T KNOW THE GUY!!!”