Comment by lombasihir 12 days ago why not perl? 4 comments lombasihir Reply adityaathalye 12 days ago 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 12 days ago 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 11 days ago yup, been there, even the basic perl sigil might be confusing for some people. oguz-ismail2 12 days ago fell out of popularity lately
adityaathalye 12 days ago 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 12 days ago 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 11 days ago yup, been there, even the basic perl sigil might be confusing for some people.
lombasihir 11 days ago yup, been there, even the basic perl sigil might be confusing for some people.
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.
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. :(
yup, been there, even the basic perl sigil might be confusing for some people.
fell out of popularity lately