"Dead" languages still have codebases that need to be maintained, and companies already invested that need new development may lean on the expertise the company already has, but this is more a sign of subsistence, not thriving life.
Re:Rails for Everything
by theonething on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @09:29PM
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uh, it's got a total of three jobs on there currently with two of them over a month old.
I don't use it and you may not but it still has an active community and job listings. The last release was on December 20th [1].
This is what I'm talking about: it may not be popular in a "bleeding edge" sense, but it's still being used and developed.
[1] https://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/