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Perl's decline was cultural

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deafpolygon ◴[] 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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MangoToupe ◴[] No.46175362[source]
> Python 3 almost killed Python.

People were being crybabies; the critics were extremely vocal and few. Python 3 improved the language in every way and the tooling to upgrade remains unmatched.

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1. raverbashing ◴[] No.46175805[source]
The real problem here was releasing 3.0 as if it was stable, when the real usable version was 3.3/3.4
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2. zahlman ◴[] No.46195509[source]
I recall 3.2 being okay. But it was definitely better by 3.4.