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The Abstraction Trap: Why Layers Are Lobotomizing Your Model

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Who are the companies that still use Perl in their back end?

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weird_tentacles•1d ago

My understanding is that the New York Times is a big Perl shop out there in thems back offices

micorazon•1d ago

Wow, that's a big company, thank you for your information

grep_it•20h ago

Last I heard, DuckDuckGo backend was Perl.

micorazon•19h ago

So my default search engine was also in perl.. that's really great to know, thank you for your information

zerr•16h ago

Raku (Perl 6) is interesting as well. I have a feeling that nobody (of significant size) adopted it in production.

aristofun•9h ago

Booking.com

micorazon•8h ago

Great.. That's big company too.. thank you for your information