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Jinja2 vs Perl: What are the differences?
Developers describe Jinja2 as "Full featured template engine for Python". Jinja2 is a full featured template engine for Python. It has full unicode support, an optional integrated sandboxed execution environment, widely used and BSD licensed. On the other hand, Perl is detailed as "Highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over 26 years of development". 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.
Jinja2 and Perl are primarily classified as "Templating Languages & Extensions" and "Languages" tools respectively.
"It is simple to use" is the top reason why over 4 developers like Jinja2, while over 62 developers mention "Lots of libraries" as the leading cause for choosing Perl.
Jinja2 and Perl are both open source tools. It seems that Jinja2 with 6.3K GitHub stars and 1.22K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Perl with 436 GitHub stars and 152 GitHub forks.
MIT, DuckDuckGo, and Tilt are some of the popular companies that use Perl, whereas Jinja2 is used by Sendwithus, RoyaltyShare, and MetaBrite. Perl has a broader approval, being mentioned in 133 company stacks & 64 developers stacks; compared to Jinja2, which is listed in 20 company stacks and 23 developer stacks.
Pros of Perl
- Lots of libraries72
- Open source66
- Text processing61
- Powerful54
- Unix-style49
- Regex47
- Stable37
- Concise syntax32
- Hackerish29
- Easy to use22
- Swiss army chainsaw16
- Code Less Do More13
- CPAN12
- Freedom9
- All purpose8
- Readability5
- Familiar5
- Many ways to do it5
- Community5
- Object-Oriented4
- Modular4
- Smart (does alot for you)4
- Postmodern3
- It's the best one-off task language3
- For a man2
- Good man pages2
- Auto case variables1
- Single Source Library (CPAN)1
- Multi-threaded support1
- Multiparadigm1
- C-style1
- Hashes1
Cons of Perl
- Messy $/@/% syntax4
- No exception handling3
- Bad OO support2
- "1;"2
- No OS threads2
- Variables are global by default1
- Copy-on-create for interpreter-based threads1
- Barewords1
- Errors/warnings are ignored by default1
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