Great to see they support and still use Perl. Geizhals is a very usable and functional product and price comparison page. Looks a little bit old, but that is exactly what I like. Geizhals is associated with the Heise Verlag, that is what I do not like so much, because there was a steady decline in quality in the recent years.

did not know (or forgot) that they were using Perl

Geizhals is a huge price comparison app in the german speaking market.

"Geizhals Preisvergleich began in July of 1997 as a hobby project—and yes, “Geizhals” literally translates to “skinflint” in English"

yup

I check this site several times to get an idea what is the market price of something in the real world (i.e. outside Amazon).

Also, it’s very good at keeping tabs on the features of some products (best place I found to compare motherboards per features, something surprisingly difficult to do).

Unfortunately it’s very German centric and I live in Portugal, so I’ve only actually bought something from a link I’ve got there once.

UK link: https://skinflint.co.uk

It’s hard to believe that 10k is worth whatever they need from Perl in 2025.

I wrote Perl for many years while I worked on the godforsaken cmecf system.

Cmecf this year announced it had been hacked by Russian hackers.

This means that cmecf written in Perl allowed a country access to Federal Court evidence including intelligence gathering methods, corporate secrets, and inside sources.

Perl is not memory safe, loaded with security issues for over a decade. It’s only saving grace is string manipulation, which is exactly why the best hackers in the world all know it.

Why is this news? Because it's so little? 10K will pay a developer for 2 months maybe ..

I've started learning (in 2025!) and using Perl lately as shell++

It's extremely stable, installed almost everywhere, and has much fewer insane idosyncrasies than shell.

I can write some Perl and confidently hand it to a colleague where it will almost certainly work on their machine.

It's a shame it's so dead, for a scripting language there's nothing else that ticks the same boxes.

I would never write systems software with it, of course