Why is it that if I ask for computer help on the computer toucher website, nobody helps me 
@vaporeon_ the problem was hoping that perl was still being regularly used in 2025
@wallhackio Anyway, I'd assume that the average Mastodon computer toucher is ancient enough that they have experienced Perl when it was popular...
@vaporeon_ i only experienced perl for a couple weeks during a "programming language paradigm course" in 2017 (oh my GOD i am OLD) so i honestly am not too familiar with any of its use cases in the modern tech world
@wallhackio @vaporeon_ its purrimary use case is either fur the build systems of some old but impurrtant software, and in non-minimal builds of git
@aescling @vaporeon_ imagine knowing what you're talking about, couldn't be me
@wallhackio @vaporeon_ the linux kernel uses perl in its build system, so perl will likely never die
@wallhackio @vaporeon_ i’m pretty sure TeXLive has a runtime dependency on perl
@wallhackio Are you saying that they don't use Perl in 2025? What do they use instead?