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People still use Perl?

Yes. And I am looking for Perl programmers right now:

  http://www.reddit.com/r/stljobs/comments/2a9940/seeking_software_developer_for_the_genome/

It gets the job done, is an easy language for people to get into, has enough flexibility to adapt to a huge number of programming patterns, and has a large and active community. We write real applications with it that help scientists find cures for diseases.

Would there be any possibility of remote work from Europe? My current job is building / maintaining the LIMS system for a sequencing centre in Spain. I did that in Django, but I did years of Perl before hand.

No. :( Our users -- lab folks -- are not particularly computer savvy, and everyone benefits from the face time, especially when it comes to translating what they said on a JIRA issue to their actual problem.

Yes, and in fact, we have an open position for someone who knows Mojolicious: https://angel.co/macrofab-inc/jobs/33566-ui-developer

Yes, and many more of us wish our employers would let us use it at work too.

everyday, although I use Catalyst, not mojo, but it's still nice to see a Perl project on hacker news.

Every day for 15 years now.

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