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Python is dying. Better buy a Golang book.

Still NPM is so much worse...

Maybe get it into (perldoc?) perl.org if possible?

Metacpan is great, why continue with a double effort that needs a rewrite. It has served the community well for many years.

For learning I would highly recommend the following books:

  Beginning Perl by Ovid.
  Modern Perl by chromatic.

There are a lot of other good Perl books but some of them are getting old and it is better to already know a bit before reading so one can separate good from dated etc.

I use Go for what I previously maybe used C for.

Thanks to the quick compile time and good tooling Go almost feels like a scripting language when developing but especially for UNIXy stuff it can't replace Perl for me.

Perl has decades worth of high quality libraries to do heavy lifting. https://metacpan.org You can get away with easy scripting for creating significant programs.

UNIX commandline and Perl is a match made in heaven.

Using Golang will demand significantly more effort when doing more complex stuff but will give you concurrency, easier deploys/multi-platform support and better performance if doing CPU intensive stuff.

The joy of Perl!

Took me a couple of days to grasp Mojolicious as a Perl programmer. Really well thought out framework.

2 months sounds insane. I guess you did not click with Perl?

Consistency is king.

Often when I glance over code to understand what it is doing I don't really care about values. When scanning from left to right it is easier when the left side contains the variable names.

Also I just find it unnatural if I read it out loud. It is called Yoda for a reason.

Yoda makes code more confusing to read at a glance so I would recommend against it.

So it was less than 100 lines of actual needed Perl code in that script? ;)

Python can feel sluggish due to slower startup time so I would skip that and use either Perl or Go.

Definitely Perl for UNIXy stuff.

Perl or Go for sure.

Dream on.

Mojolicious rocks!

Good read. Perl + Go seems like a great combo.

I've had some similar experiences when trying to learn Go, for non performance unixy stuff Perl just rocks.

+1

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Written in Perl!

Exciting!

Thanks for making it available!

For reference the latest App::Slaughter can be found here:

http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/S/SK/SKX/

Why not put it back on Github? I always find it interesting to look on other projects when I have an idea etc. Deprecated or not.

I am getting tired of puppet/ansible and dream of the pure Perl + Shell world I used to live in. :)

Zuck has to go.

What happened to Slaughter?

Except for perhaps an unfortunate name it was an interesting project. I can see that all links to it doesn't work anymore..

Golang for components that need the speed, Perl for the rest.

Mojolicious is my preferred Perl framework.

You can use Perl instead of PHP, Python or Ruby. They all have their strengths and weaknesses but overall they are very similar when it comes to usefulness.

I prefer Perl.

The Perl Conference: https://perlconference.us/tpc-2018-slc/

It's the best!

Perl fits into C-Like, Pure Fun and Code-Golfy in addition to Stringy.