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by glintik 1108 days ago
> However, it requires a lot of discipline and experience

That’s true for any platform - Java or PHP. Perl has less support in modern IDE. Perl 5 to 6 transition failed many times so ecosystem lost many talents.

P.S. I wrote and supported large Perl codebases, no rocket science to manage it, if you do it right.