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Discussion on: Why am I giving up on Perl? (edit: I didn't)

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Emil Perhinschi

don't see why you need to explain switching to other languages

I'd make it mandatory for Perl developers to get a job doing something else from time to time, we'll have a lot less complaining about "features" :)

I'm not writing Perl right now and I miss CPAN like crazy, all the fancy new languages lack good libraries like you would not believe, but I think being multilingual is worth it

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🌌 Sébastien Feugère ☔

don't see why you need to explain switching to other languages

You know, blues singer, they were telling their problems to others in their songs. It was a way to share issues, and to realize that those issues were actually common and to live better with difficult situations.

I don't pretend my ridiculous blog has something in common with the deepness of the blues songs. But it is maybe one of the way to express things.

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Fulvio Scapin • Edited

Well, a blog post is a way to express oneself, beyond the strict confines of pragmatic need and the validation of an argument.
I do believe that your point about lacking decent libraries (hating the JS universe there, it feels as the new form of a recurrent human nightmare) is quite sound, although CPAN nowadays feels more and more like an elephant graveyard; not to mention that the libraries for many implementations of protocols and the likes are often quite far from comprehensive and bulletproof.