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Re^3: A meditation on the naming of perl6by BrowserUk (Patriarch) |
on Jul 12, 2017 at 01:02 UTC ( [id://1194881]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Perl's utility hasn't and won't go away. In 10 years or 20 it will still be as good a language as it ever was; and that's very damn good. The problem will be finding companies that are prepared to accept it's use on their projects & systems. Eg. For anything that needs to work with AWS until very recently you were totally out of luck. As of 2015, a community effort started to put together a Perl interface to it in the shape of PAWS. By roughly the beginning of this year, they had something that could be seen as reasonably robust; for those AWS services it covers. But that set is only a subset of those available; and the delay between AWS adding new ones and those becoming available via PAWS grows longer. These problems do not occur for the users of Go, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Windows and .NET, C++; for which AWS write and maintain the interfaces and mostly release simultaneously with the announcement of new APIs. As an in-house perl programmer, you will tend to move between companies that use Perl; as a specialist consultant, the pieces of work I choose from tend to come from a small range of organisations many of whom are now outsourcing the type of workloads I code to AWS/GCP/MAS; none of whom offer Perl support, thus the Perl opportunities in my field have dried up. I hate to say that the battle is lost; but I see no way back when those 3 cloud vendors cover 9x% of that market place and they -- for pretty sound reasons -- have rejected Perl. With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
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