"Perl has served us quite well since Fastmail’s inception. We’ve built up a large code base that has continued to work, grow, and improve over twenty years. We’ve stuck with Perl because Perl stuck with us: it kept working and growing and improving, and very rarely did those improvements require us to stop the world and adapt to onerous changes."
Thanks to @rjbs and Fastmail for supporting Perl 5 core development. 🙏
perl.com/article/fastmail-dona…
Further discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Fastmail Donates USD 10,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation
Fastmail stuck with Perl because Perl stuck with them. TPRF can fund community grants again because of donors like this.Perl.com
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Rihards Olups
in reply to Olaf Alders • • •"One of the reasons that you don’t hear about Perl in the headlines is its reliability."
That's a great testimony.
Also, #Perl 😀
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Olaf Alders
Unknown parent • • •@JustinDerrick @MikeStok I'm still running some CGI::Application stuff
It started as CGI, transitioned to mod_perl and now it's still clicking along with Plack. Possibly there were Server Side Includes in there at some point as well.