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		JohnBooty on June 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly `These days it seems like Ruby is where Perl was in 2010` It's more "mature" than "abandoned" IMO. I think it's in a solid place. A lot of Rubyists have moved on but so far, that's OK with me. Unlike OP's experience with Perl, most legacy Ruby and/or Rails codebases are not too disasterous.

orthoxerox on June 25, 2020 [–]

That's probably because Rails hits the sweet spot. It's just complex enough to support a medium-sized website well. Most innovations since Rails have targeted high-load websites.

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