alt Hacker NewsWhile 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.
Replies
indigodaddy • yesterday at 8:16 PM
Cpanel, IMDb(?)
darrenf • yesterday at 8:23 PM
DuckDuckGo.
While 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.
Cpanel, IMDb(?)
DuckDuckGo.
Not '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.