"Perl has served us quite well since Fastmail’s inception.

[oalders@fosstodon.org]

"Perl has served us quite well since Fastmail’s inception. We’ve built up a large code base that has continued to work, grow, and improve over twenty years. We’ve stuck with Perl because Perl stuck with us: it kept working and growing and improving, and very rarely did those improvements require us to stop the world and adapt to onerous changes."

Thanks to @rjbs and Fastmail for supporting Perl 5 core development. 🙏

https://www.perl.com/article/fastmail-donates-usd-10-000-to-the-perl-and-raku-foundation/

Further discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888454

[mikestok@mstdn.ca]

@oalders @rjbs Perl is still my favourite programming language.

[richlv@mastodon.social]

@oalders @rjbs

"One of the reasons that you don’t hear about Perl in the headlines is its reliability."

That's a great testimony.

Also, #Perl :)

[justinderrick@mstdn.ca]

@MikeStok @oalders @rjbs Code I wrote nearly 20 years ago still runs without modification - maybe a warning in the most extreme cases.

I’ve been considering moving to something new for my next project, but Perl’s flexibility with Hash-of-Hash and arrays of hashes are Amazing with a capital a. :)

[rhempel@mstdn.ca]

@oalders @rjbs +1 for Fastmail as a first class operation - I have been a customer for almost 15 years with absolutely zero issues.

The more I deal with (insert language) package managers and the apparent willingness of package authors to break stuff - the more I want to go back to the basic hand-tools for computers.

sed, awk, grep, ... not sure about going back to Perl but if it works and your team has it in their muscle memory then go and be awesome!

[oalders@fosstodon.org]

@JustinDerrick @MikeStok @rjbs I'm still running some CGI::Application stuff

It started as CGI, transitioned to mod_perl and now it's still clicking along with Plack. Possibly there were Server Side Includes in there at some point as well.