[stefanos82]

Perl developers that depend on XS [1] for extending their code's behavior will have a "lovely" time with this lol!

Here's an example https://github.com/adriaandens/XSamples/blob/master/XSamples...

[1] https://perldoc.perl.org/perlxs

[nine_k]

While at it: How much Perl code is still running in production? I only know about two large Perl codebases, at Debain, and at booking.com.

[kjs3]

Not 'large Perl codebases', but I know an awful lot of 'small Perl codebases', relatively speaking, doing the sort of sysadmin stuff Perl was designed to do. It's still a great scripting language, and there's a lot of folks who didn't get the memo that cool kids don't use Perl any more.

[indigodaddy]

Cpanel, IMDb(?)

[giancarlostoro]

I thought CraigsList and maybe eBay?

[kmoser]

It seems eBay ditched Perl a long time ago: https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/03/01/sacrificial-architectu...

[darrenf]

DuckDuckGo.

[thrance]

Ah! I was wondering why such a small language had syntax highlighting on Github, but it was just an alias. That explains it!