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Re:What Killed Perl? by CamouflagedKiwi on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @06:51PM (#45986949)
Major-ish. It was getting experimental module support around 2018; arguably go get was already better than Python's mess, but it wasn't great. It wasn't that widespread in industry yet - we could very rarely hire anyone with a Go background at that point.
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Re:What Killed Perl? by loeg on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @08:44PM (#45987799)
Pretty major. I started using Go in like 2009 or 2010 and industry adoption was already pretty wide in the mid 2010s (largely replacing Java moreso than Python, IMO).
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