Simple and reliable has a lot to be said for it.
digdilem
joined 2 years ago
(Ignoring the ageist and sexist "old men" statements in this thread because it's irrelevant)
They will die out,
... and be replaced with other technically invested people who are resistant to change. Such as with every massive project ever - at least until you get a tyrant who ignores the feelings and work of of others and is in a position to push through their own vision.
OP is on OpenWRT
Fair point - I missed that, buried in the comments as it was.
In that scenario, you use what's available, I guess.
OP said they just want to copy a binary around. Can you do that with perl?
This is linux. Someone will have done it.
Wow, you're a dick.
Try it now - go on. Type "perl" and tell me what you get.
And if you're so certain it's not used, try removing it and see how well your computer works afterwards.
I work at scale - deploying scripts to hundreds of linux machines and any package you install will be multiplied that many times on the backend storage. You don't get the luxury of installing anything that isn't essential.
Try it now - type perl. It's a dependency on a huge amount of core system tools.
Can't say I've noticed much pain beyond what I mention - powershell just works.
Um, exactly the opposite on all the distros I use. All Enterprise Linux distros, Suse and Debian.
So often the right answer, perl. It's a shame that it's so unfashionable these days.
Perl is a step up in terms of developer comfort, but it’s at the same time too big and too awkward to use.
How do you mean?
It's already on nearly every distro, so there's no core size unless you lean into modules. The scripts aren't exactly big either.
Agree - after they started bundling adware in downloads (2013ish?), all the decent projects seemed to move to github en masse.
Those projects that stayed were mostly already stagnant, or the maintainers didn't use git and didn't want to learn, or had some other reason that allowed them to accept advertising on their work.