[Chicago-talk] What's happening with Perl these days

[Mike Fragassi]

This seems more or less correct. My Perl activity at work has become
strictly maintenance of existing applications, including adding minor
features. We've moved to Python for all new work. A lot of it comes down to
that it used to be that all the new hires had at least passing experience
with Perl; but now, it's Python instead. Slow attrition has left us with
just 2 people at all comfortable with Perl, and I'm the only "expert".

Incidentally, I was helped *immensely* when my job, for a moment, was
willing to fund training; I jumped to take an in-person course from David
Beazley, a local who has written/co-written several Python books, including
O'Reilly's Python Cookbook. (His site is https://www.dabeaz.com/)

Speaking for myself, the one thing that Python has, that makes me actually
angry with Perl for missing, is built-in Exceptions. I will defend Perl's
honor that it was not 'line noise' to anyone who tosses out that old line,
but I never ever ever want to deal with "$@" again.

Perl 6 is now "Raku" since 2019, and it seems that existing under its own
"brand" is beneficial for both languages. It should have been done years
earlier.

On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 9:56 PM Jay S <me at heyjay.com> wrote:

> Hi Perl Mongers,
> I hope all is well.
>
> I'm only lightly technical these days, having moved into a sales role a
> decade ago. I haven't really done any programming for years.
>
> It seems like Perl6 was too big an effort, leaderless, and sort of fizzled
> out while Python ascended. Technical folks I sell to all have Python people
> (and scala ruby Java(script)) - I never hear anyone mention Perl.
>
> Is my perspective right, wrong?
>
> Jay
>
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