Post #780953
2026-02-04 17:14 UTC
"Perl has served us quite well since Fastmail’s inception. We’ve built up a large code base that has continued to work, grow, and improve over twenty years. We’ve stuck with Perl because Perl stuck with us: it kept working and growing and improving, and very rarely did those improvements require us to stop the world and adapt to onerous changes."
Thanks to @rjbs and Fastmail for supporting Perl 5 core development. 🙏
https://www.perl.com/article/fastmail-donates-usd-10-000-to-the-perl-and-raku-foundation/
Further discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888454
Replies (2)
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@richlv@mastodon.social 2026-02-04 19:00
@oalders@fosstodon.org @rjbs@social.semiotic.systems "One of the reasons that you don’t hear about Perl in the headlines is its reliability." That's a great testimony. Also, #Perl :)
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@rhempel@mstdn.ca 2026-02-05 03:18
@oalders@fosstodon.org @rjbs@social.semiotic.systems +1 for Fastmail as a first class operation - I have been a customer for almost 15 years with absolutely zero issues. The more I deal with (insert language) package managers and the apparent willingness of package authors to break stuff - the more I want to go back to the basic hand-tools for computers. sed, awk, grep, ... not sure about going back to Perl but if it works and your team has it in their muscle memory then go and be awesome!