DuckDuckGo Donates $25,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation v2025
perl.com39 points by oalders 2 hours ago
39 points by oalders 2 hours ago
Very nice, I should get off my butt and learn Perl. That is part of a multiple decade procrastination process :)
I got close 20 years ago, but "things".
Started with Perl, always loved it, never understood the hate. I feel like after Perl you can write in any language. I'll never forget writing Python the first time and searching for a Data::Dumper alternative...
Same here. Perhaps what I've enjoyed the most about Perl was the humanness and art of it. Cleverness and expressiveness were at the service of elegance.
Sure you can write amazingly obscure foot-guns in Perl but that's also true of any other language. But honestly I'd rather a few lines of obscure Perl code WITH a comment block explaining why, than a dozen classes with bits and pieces of business logic spread all over the place.
I still got "Learn 6502 Assembly for the Commodore 64" on my backlog.
That said, how does DuckDuckGo get that money?
Kinda similar—Raku is on my radar. I won't have time to take a look at it this year. Maybe it can become my next year's resolution. :)