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Gabor Szabo @szabgab

Why People Want To Migrate Away From Perl

People moving away from Perl cite reasons like outdated libraries, lack of modern tools and frameworks, and limited job opportunities. Help me understand why people leave Perl by sharing your company's experiences.

Originally published at Perl Weekly 713
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Ramadan seems to have a very positive impact on Mohammad Sajid Anwar (manwar), author of The Weekly Challenge and co-editor of The Perl Weekly newsletter. He learns all kinds of new things and writes long blog posts about them. Some of them are Perl related, some are not. Anyway, see the links in this newsletter.
I, on the other hand, was recently contacted by a number of people wanting to migrate from Perl to Rust or Python. My first question is why. After all even if I end up helping them with the move, I need to understand why do they want t...