The dude equivocates programming in Perl to programming in FoxPro, both are simp...

senko · on May 16, 2023

Perl is not so much deprecated, more like the community performed collective jump off the cliff with Perl 6.

If you think Python 2->3 transition was ugly, you haven't been watching that slow-mo trainwreck.

Jorengarenar · on May 16, 2023

Wait, wasn't Perl 6 rebranded as new language Raku?

senko · on May 16, 2023

I believe so, after years of being vapourware and basically stopping Perl 5 development right when web as a platform started being important.

cesarb · on May 16, 2023

Perl 6 did get released, with that name, after years stuck in development (source: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/15/12/26/0354235/perl-...). Only later was it rebranded.

lizmat · on May 17, 2023

In 2019 to be precise: https://raku.org

biorach · on May 16, 2023

The guy way overused "deprecated" in that article.

Perl 5 is alive and well, and while not the most actively developed of languages still has a steady trickle of small improvements.

It's installable in all major linux distros and you can probably get code from 2 decades ago running without much hassle.

Most people would shudder at the thought of starting a new project in it, but if you need to keep a legacy codebase going the community have your back for many many years to come.