[lombasihir]

why not perl?

[adityaathalye]

Sometimes we are very self-aware, but we still do things just because...

- It is a wee publishing system made of pipelined workflows, optionally driven by streams of file events (for the hotreloadin' bits).

- It will not surprise a Perl/PHP gentleperson hacker from the last century.

- It exists because one whistles silly tunes and shaves yaks.

  - my site maker's README

[accrual]

Just anecdata, but as someone who first learned HTML/JS/CSS, then PHP, shell, TypeScript, Python, other popular langs... Perl's syntax hurts my brain. :(

[lombasihir]

yup, been there, even the basic perl sigil might be confusing for some people.

[oguz-ismail2]

fell out of popularity lately