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Perl's decline was cultural

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393 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 06 Dec 25 17:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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deafpolygon ◴[06 Dec 25 18:12 UTC] No.46175307[source]▶
Perl6/Raku killed Perl.

Python 3 almost killed Python.

It's normal. Once a community loses faith, it's hard to stop them from leaving.

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1. symbogra ◴[06 Dec 25 18:23 UTC] No.46175400[source]▶
Agree 100%. We were told to wait for any improvements or new features we wanted and just to wait for Perl 6, which never came