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Perl's decline was cultural

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393 points todsacerdoti | 3 comments | 06 Dec 25 17:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.018s | source
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jordanb ◴[06 Dec 25 18:16 UTC] No.46175337[source]▶
I always found the Perl "community" to be really off-putting with all the monk and wizard nonsense. Then there was the whole one-liner thing that was all about being clever and obscure. Everything about Python came off as being much more serious and normal for a young nerd who wasn't a theater kid.
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lamontcg ◴[06 Dec 25 22:41 UTC] No.46177249[source]▶
> I always found the Perl "community" to be really off-putting with all the monk and wizard nonsense.

Rubyists vs. Pythonistas isn't any better.

Programming languages as counter-cultural lifestyle choices is pretty "cringe" as the kids say.

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1. Ferret7446 ◴[07 Dec 25 03:56 UTC] No.46179031[source]▶
I don't think "Pythonista" was a thing in the 2000s. Python is very old and only became more of a "fad" relatively recently.
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2. AlexCoventry ◴[07 Dec 25 07:14 UTC] No.46179850[source]▶
It was definitely a thing.
3. zweifuss ◴[07 Dec 25 14:06 UTC] No.46181765[source]▶
I can remember perl vs python flame wars ca. 2002.

Also, the early 2010s are not that recent: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Pythonista%2Cp...