Why developers like Perl

What is Perl?

Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, GUI development, and more.

Perl is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.

Perl is an open source tool with 1.9K GitHub stars and 543 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Perl's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Perl?

Companies

810 companies reportedly use Perl in their tech stacks, including Amazon, Booking.com, and ROBLOX.

Amazon

Booking.com

ROBLOX

MIT

DuckDuckGo

Morgan Stanley

Venmo

Juspay

SendGrid

Developers

1066 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Perl.

Wishlist

ytnobody

Taylor Berg's Stack

Open Food Facts

Tools I Use

omelette

Packages Used

AMDouglas UK

mizuki_r

Perl Integrations

Sentry, Rollbar, Cloudinary, uWSGI, and IBM DB2 are some of the popular tools that integrate with Perl. Here's a list of all 37 tools that integrate with Perl.

Sentry

Rollbar

Cloudinary

uWSGI

IBM DB2

Swagger Codegen

Raygun

NGINX Unit

ImageMagick

Pros of Perl

Lots of libraries

Open source

Text processing

Powerful

Unix-style

Regex

Stable

Concise syntax

Hackerish

Easy to use

Swiss army chainsaw

Code Less Do More

CPAN

Freedom

All purpose

Many ways to do it

Familiar

Readability

Community

Modular

Smart (does alot for you)

Object-Oriented

Postmodern

It's the best one-off task language

For a man

Good man pages

Auto case variables

Single Source Library (CPAN)

Multi-threaded support

Hashes

C-style

Multiparadigm

Decisions about Perl

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Perl in their tech stack.

Ayush Agrawal

May 17, 2022 | 4 upvotes · 142K views

Needs advice

Golang

Perl

and

Rust

I intend to use a programming language which I'll use as AWS runtime and write a script that will comb through tons of files in a directory and its subdirectories and search for simple text regular expressions and process and write the matches in a file as output. I have heard that Perl is good for regex based search but I also want the performance to be good as it will have to go through tons of files for IO. In this post: https://filia-aleks.medium.com/aws-lambda-battle-2021-performance-comparison-for-all-languages-c1b441005fd1, I see that Rust works well as AWS Lambda runtime with very good performance. Which one should I choose as my AWS lambda runtime for this problem? Golang is also an option as it is fast as per the above link.

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Blog Posts

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Tilt

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5669

Perl Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Perl?

PHP

Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

Ruby

Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.

C lang

Java

Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!

Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

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