Re^11: Inclusion of Raku on PerlMonks

[Your Mother]

My personal view of Perl does not remotely correspond to the looks of disgust or shock that I get from Java or Python hackers when I say I prefer Perl. The only change heading into 2020 is I get the condescension from Scala, Dart, Go, .NET … programmers too. Perl is used in innumerable places even today. The Perl is dying thing was overblown. Perl cannot die. But like I said, FUD works. Some are shocked to hear that anyone still uses Perl because they heard it’s been dead for years.

Perl is a fantastic tool, objectively better by many measures than all the high level competition. That said!

Perl cannot grow. Perl is only in good shape internally in a subset of its former domain and as a legacy language. The bus number on the core devs is far too low. Big data passed Perl by when R said to Python, “Get in the car, loser. We’re going munging.” PHP took the web away from Perl because the community was too high minded and thought modperl was somehow an answer. Mobile blocked Perl’s number early on. Javascript was a fragile, ridiculous tool 20 years ago. It adds advanced features to its core frequently and all class A browsers are keeping up. It’s got the best tool chains and environments now. CPAN, once a wonder of the programming world, is starting to look emaciated and Victorian by comparison. A casual review of github projects and SO questions by language demonstrates my point better than I could.

I adore Perl. I restate this meta issue only in response. A cessation of retconning Perl5/6 history is all it will take to keep me quiet. Well… quiet about this. :P I do like to go on about this and that from time to time.

Update: typo.