20+ years as a software engineer. Started out in Perl & PHP, but nowadays I work mostly in Typescript with a bit of Rust and Python thrown in. I do a lot of AWS and Angular development.
Thank you for this. I'm a Perl guy, and in my current position, I and my junior colleague are the only Perl people in the company. Mostly we're a .NET shop, and word from On High is that one of the big applications we are responsible for is to be rewritten in .NET.
Every year, it seems to me, Perl jobs are getting fewer and farther between, and the language that I love is becoming less and less relevant. So I'm trying to learn new languages to keep my skills relevant. It's nice to know that there's still some love for Perl in the world.
Although Perl is in the title, this post was more about programming in general. I too am sad Perl seems to be becoming less and less relevant. I may follow this post up with a post where I advocate for Perl and give reasons why someone should consider Perl in 2019.
I'm fortunate that since I work as a DBA instead of as a developer, most of the coding I do are scripts and tools used just by me to automate database and system administration tasks. My work doesn't really care what language I write them in. I could probably write them all in Smalltalk if I wanted. I manage databases on both Solaris and Linux servers, and Perl can be found on both, which makes Perl a natural choice if you ask me.
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Thank you for this. I'm a Perl guy, and in my current position, I and my junior colleague are the only Perl people in the company. Mostly we're a .NET shop, and word from On High is that one of the big applications we are responsible for is to be rewritten in .NET.
Every year, it seems to me, Perl jobs are getting fewer and farther between, and the language that I love is becoming less and less relevant. So I'm trying to learn new languages to keep my skills relevant. It's nice to know that there's still some love for Perl in the world.
Although Perl is in the title, this post was more about programming in general. I too am sad Perl seems to be becoming less and less relevant. I may follow this post up with a post where I advocate for Perl and give reasons why someone should consider Perl in 2019.
I'm fortunate that since I work as a DBA instead of as a developer, most of the coding I do are scripts and tools used just by me to automate database and system administration tasks. My work doesn't really care what language I write them in. I could probably write them all in Smalltalk if I wanted. I manage databases on both Solaris and Linux servers, and Perl can be found on both, which makes Perl a natural choice if you ask me.