With the Rise of DevOps, Perl Shows Its Muscle

Re:With the Rise of DevOps, Perl Shows Its Muscle by hoodoof on Sunday January 08, 2017 @04:06AM (#13348985)

I simply don't believe that Perl is making a comeback. This is the ONLY time I've ever heard such an assertion being made and I've never seen any sort of indication that it is true.

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Re:With the Rise of DevOps, Perl Shows Its Muscle by wyclif on Sunday January 08, 2017 @06:55AM (#13349351)

DuckDuckGo uses Perl a lot. So are many other startups. Isn't that evidence that it's making a comeback of sorts, since there was kind of a dead zone in new development between Perl's heyday and the newer, "Modern Perl" (i.e., Perl 5.2x) movement? http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/

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Re:With the Rise of DevOps, Perl Shows Its Muscle by cutler on Sunday January 08, 2017 @12:10PM (#13350697)

Who are these "many other startups"? Last year's London Perl Workshop was largely populated by the usual suspects who've been there since the early 2000s. I didn't hear the word "startup" mentioned either in conversation or the literature.

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Re:With the Rise of DevOps, Perl Shows Its Muscle by coldtea on Sunday January 08, 2017 @02:12PM (#13351347)

>DuckDuckGo uses Perl a lot.

That's hardly the proof of Perl making a comeback. If it was Google or Facebook or some major company or unicorn that might had a leg, but DuckDuckGo?

And while "many other startups" might use it, many other startups also use all kinds of languages that won't go anywhere.

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