Hello, On Sun, Apr 02, 2023 at 11:36:16PM +0200, Oliver Schoede wrote: > I don't see much of a reason for learning Perl today unless you're > a die-hard hobbyist with near infinite amount of time and an > undying penchant for obsolete technology.
Perl continues to get new releases and new features. Just because it has less of a user base than it once did does not mean it is obsolete. If you don't have to support some application written in Perl then it's hard to see a compelling reason to learn it, but there are plenty of people who do have to do that, and plenty of new language features for them to keep up to speed with. Programming is extremely domain-specific and AI will not change that any time soon, although it may well chip away at the use cases for simple standalone throw-away scripting tasks. For example, even if some AI assistant is written in Python, and even if you can ask it to spit out a device driver for the Linux kernel that does X and Y with Z hardware, do you think the device driver that it spits out will itself be written in Python? Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
