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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: 0s | 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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MangoToupe ◴[06 Dec 25 18:19 UTC] 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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symbogra ◴[06 Dec 25 18:22 UTC] No.46175397[source]▶
Python 3 was a disaster and enterprises were still undertaking pointless 2->3 upgrade projects 10 years later
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bsder ◴[07 Dec 25 00:17 UTC] No.46177968{3}[source]▶
Except that Python took the other path when migrating from Python 1 to Python 2 and ... guess what? That was a "disaster" too.

The only difference was that by the time of Python 3, Python programs were orders of magnitude bigger so the pain was that much worse.

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1. symbogra ◴[07 Dec 25 07:45 UTC] No.46179987{4}[source]▶
Differences of scale do make a qualitative difference and must be considered when doing a migration.