@mhoye @demiguise Aye. Under 50 here.

Also why Perl? Portable.

Only langauge sorta close to it in that area is rust, but it so needs a hell of a lot of maturing to do in terms of feature stability(very much suffers constantly introducing stuff that can't be counted on to be available in the version of rust available in the package repo for Debian or the like).

@mhoye Under 50 here and I do.

Why? I need something well supported and portable. That is frankly Perl.

Also honestly don't remember that being a Perl community take about it being difficult to parse etc. I remember that largely being slander pushed by the Python community to try to make up for how shit python was at everything for the longest time. Basically a lie pushed at the academic level and as a meme on forums based around trotting out the worst code imaginable treating it like it was the language was only capable of.

It is was/is the intellectual equivalent of taking C or Python code written for a obfuscation contest and telling people this is what the language is and only how it can be written.

Also holy fuck? Human ergonomics and python and ruby? From a tooling/dev/admin perspective I think the only thing worse I've encountered is node.