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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by papito on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:05PM (#23631592)
IMDB was written in Perl, notoriously. Seeing that the layout has not changed in ages, I can only assume it's still Perl.

I'd imagine a bigger rewrite effort would have led to a more slick iteration on the UI, and it seems the legacy HTML templates are still baked in.

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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by yellowapple on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:43PM (#23632129)
DuckDuckGo's also written in Perl, and doesn't seem to have any trouble maintaining a reasonably-modern-looking UI.
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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by hpcjoe on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @06:10PM (#23634432)
And their interview process is apparently, contribute a useful feature to the code base. Which, IMO, is brilliant.
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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by Scarblac on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:15PM (#23632534)
Booking.com is also (notoriously) completely written in Perl.
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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by hpcjoe on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @06:09PM (#23634428)
Hmm ... don't conflate the presentation UI with the underlying language. I wrote my companies website (2 jobs ago) in Mojolicious (perl web framework), with a responsive UI, based in part upon bootstrap. Very modern (for the time) UI. All backed by a very fast implementation.

IMDB seems plenty fast to me. UI isn't great, but that's more of a presentation layer design thing than a language thing.

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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by papito on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @10:42PM (#23636339)
I am not actually talking about the quality of the UI - I am just pointing out that the UI seems to have been the same for years now, and I would think a rewrite from Perl would have changed that. Yes, you can totally swap out the backend, but IMDB codebase is old. HTML and the sprinkled JS (if you look at page source) is probably baked in deep.
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