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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: 0.357s | source
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stack_framer ◴[06 Dec 25 21:25 UTC] No.46176720[source]▶
Should the Rust community take a lesson here, and maybe the Zig community to an extent?

To me it seems that some in the Rust community in particular, perhaps because they're just the most vocal, are tightly coupled to progressive, social activism.

I guess in general I just find myself wishing that political and social issues could be entirely left out of technical communities.

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1. noobermin ◴[08 Dec 25 16:14 UTC] No.46194060[source]▶
But don't you know, as OP said, Perl are reactionaries. Rust is progressive, and that's good!