Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated
by mgkimsal on Thursday October 21, 2021 @08:43AM
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Why is "college kid skills" relevant for anything? Do you make tech and business decisions based on what your incoming jr people want to do?
Many people in my circles use PHP for ... lots of stuff. I just got back from a PHP conference, and saw hundreds of people there are using it.
"Python seems to have won the backend game" - I'm really curious where you get that impression from. I can't imagine it's relating to publicly available web servers. That's not a total view of everything, of course, but... absent other numbers/studies/reports, it's really hard to draw any conclusions that aren't just based on personal experience.
Many people in my circles use PHP for ... lots of stuff. I just got back from a PHP conference, and saw hundreds of people there are using it.
"Python seems to have won the backend game" - I'm really curious where you get that impression from. I can't imagine it's relating to publicly available web servers. That's not a total view of everything, of course, but... absent other numbers/studies/reports, it's really hard to draw any conclusions that aren't just based on personal experience.