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by irateswami 1589 days ago
Perl was my first language too! Believe it or not, there's a ton of b*ch work that still needs to be done by interns at legacy tech that involves the language (looking at you Veritas, although this was a long time ago so who knows).

I'm grateful Rust now exists and is able to match, and even beat, Perl in regex text surgery.

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Yeah I've been thinking about learning Rust, but I've been 100% javascript the last 10 years.