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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    10 months 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.