Gabor Szabo
szabgab.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2009
Gabor Szabo writes about Perl, including tutorials, the Perl Weekly newsletter, Perl 6, and testing.
What HN saysCommenters recommend his Perl Weekly newsletter as a concise overview of the Perl community, which he runs.
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freyfogle · 2015-12-10
Agree with you, the perl community is great.
If you don't yet, I recommend you subscribe to the perl weekly: http://perlweekly.com it's a great, concise overview of what's happening in perl (5 and 6). A very simple, low effort way to give back financially would be to sponsor the newsletter via GratisPay http://szabgab.com/gratipay.html Obviously there are also many other ways, financial and non-financial, to contribute to the community.
bashcoder · 2014-02-28
> The spectre of perl6 stopped bothering us about 2006
From a practical usage standpoint, sure. But wouldn't you agree that an effective major version freeze has had a chilling effect on the progression of the language?
I'd argue it's had a deleterious effect to varying degrees, even since 2006. It's not enough for a community to be not bothered. They need to be energized, and it's tough to make the argument that the perl6 snafu has been helpful to the perl movement.
> CPAN uploads have been up every year since.
CPAN traffic was down over 10% last year, according to Alexa. In fact, many perl popularity metrics were down at least 10% in 2013. [0]
My experience, admittedly anecdotal, is that CPAN packages in general are not maintained with the same vigor as in years past. But why would they be, if people are moving their focus to other languages?
Regarding Moo, thanks - I'll definitely have a look.
[0] http://szabgab.com/the-popularity-of-perl-in-2013.html