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calmbonsai ◴[06 Dec 25 18:19 UTC] No.46175370[source]▶

No. Perl died because other languages starting having an equivalent to CPAN and its extremely flexible syntax does not scale for medium to large team coordination.

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kamaal ◴[07 Dec 25 06:15 UTC] No.46179561[source]▶

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>>Perl died because other languages starting having an equivalent to CPAN

Last time I checked apart from npm, no other language has anything similar to CPAN.

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1. webstrand ◴[07 Dec 25 08:38 UTC] No.46180170[source]▶

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PyPI doesn't count? (or rust's cargo)

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2. lamontcg ◴[07 Dec 25 21:34 UTC] No.46185388[source]▶

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or rubygems

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Perl's decline was cultural