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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: 0.2s | 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. pjmlp ◴[07 Dec 25 09:20 UTC] No.46180346[source]▶
This will keep happening until we start programming computers with some kind of AI style driven interfaces, and even then maybe not.

Humans are tribal, and HR only hires for specific bullet points, thus everyone wants to assert they are on the right tribe when they need to go job hunting.