Ask HN: Is Perl dead?

Re:Ask HN: Is Perl dead? by zephyrfalcon on Friday September 03, 2010 @02:48PM (#1660646)

For what it's worth, a quick search on dice.com gives the following:

  - perl: 4448 results
  - python: 1988
  - ruby: 1087

So I don't know... apparently there are still many jobs out there that require Perl. It may be that people use it less for new projects, though.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Perl dead? by nprincigalli on Friday September 03, 2010 @04:31PM (#1661036)

Here's a graph with postings for jobs.perl.org from jan/2002 to aug/2010:

http://bit.ly/bFuh7x

(source http://jobs.perl.org/about/stats)

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Re:Ask HN: Is Perl dead? by pchristensen on Friday September 03, 2010 @05:33PM (#1661234)

Look like Rails took a big bite out of Perl jobs?

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Re:Ask HN: Is Perl dead? by chromatic on Friday September 03, 2010 @08:01PM (#1661561)

In 2008? I can think of other explanations for a drop in hiring around then.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Perl dead? by kentnl on Sunday September 05, 2010 @06:30AM (#1664313)

Hey, wasn't that the year the economy started to go south? .... Obviously, people stopped employing people in Perl, and the economy took a steep dive because of it!. Use Perl! Save the economy!.

( nb. for people with no sense of humour, this was a stab at people who don't understand that correlation != causation )

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Re:Ask HN: Is Perl dead? by pchristensen on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @03:12PM (#1669786)

Calm down guys, I counted the years wrong - I thought the drop was taking place in 2006-7, when Rails was growing quickly. Also, it was a guess, which was why I used a "?"

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