Why is Funding Perl Core Development So Difficult?

Re:Why is Funding Perl Core Development So Difficult? by absconditus on Thursday November 17, 2011 @11:38AM (#3248189)

I think that you are vastly overestimating Ruby's popularity outside of the HN crowd.

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Re:Why is Funding Perl Core Development So Difficult? by hello_moto on Thursday November 17, 2011 @12:29PM (#3248415)

I'm not into the whole sys-admin thing or the Ruby hotness or the Node.JS hype but I noticed that there are more utilities or tools that are written in Ruby lately.

CloudFoundry seems to be written in Ruby and it looks like a bunch of sys-admin tools.

Chef, Puppet are both written in Ruby and utilized Ruby (or Ruby DSL?).

There's a strong push for Ruby lately and it might be because Ruby is kind of similar to Perl so some sys-admins are okay with that?

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Re:Why is Funding Perl Core Development So Difficult? by ccashell on Sunday November 20, 2011 @06:51PM (#3259394)

Agreed. Ruby is very popular in a few smallish circles. It's still essentially unknown pretty much everywhere that isn't a small web-based startup.

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