Just because YOU can't seem to get a grasp on the language doesn't mean the language inherently sucks and that literally the entire rest of the world is crazy for using it. It won because it's Good Enough(tm) and that's all it ever needed to be (and many of the things you see as flaws are actually big parts of what makes it exactly that).

Like, I'm not gonna go out of my way to defend a damn programming language 'cause that just feels stupid... but your constant bitching about it is tiring as hell, ESPECIALLY when the complaints you constantly state clearly indicate that you just don't have a solid grasp of it.

So, the answer isn't for everyone else to "wake up to how shitty it is", it's for YOU to either expend the calories to understand it, or simply shut the fuck up with your constant whining about it. I'm good either way, but pick one already!

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I like how the people who like it are crying.

I get, that it hurts you emotionally when people rant about your beloved language of choice. But lets face it: Perl is ugly and trying to defend it will not change that.

One personal motto in this field is: do whatever it takes to not be an asshole stereotypical neckbeard lardass developer that does not let people enjoy shit.

That includes shitting on the technologies that others use. Doing shit like that is pretty neckbeardy .

@Oktokolo I wonder if Perl is still even used anymore aside from maintaining legacy stuff

may i ask: what's the first programming language you ever learned, and how many (and which) programming languages do you know?

@Midnight-shcode First one I learned was BASIC, in the 70's.

How many do I know? Well, depends on what you mean by "know". How about those I've USED for something non-trivial at one point or another? Hmm, lemme see...

BASIC, Assembly, Lisp, Pascal, PHP, COBOL, Fortran, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, Forth, Lua, Visual Basic, VBScript, Prolog, Delphia, C#, ActionScript, Bash and Batch (if you consider them languages), Easytrieve, FoxPro, Dart, Objective-C, JCL, Perl, SQL (again, is it a "language"? Maybe, maybe not), Ruby (and, of course, HTML and CSS, but I don't consider them languages per se).

What's that, 32? With a few "maybe" languages?

But, of those, how many would I, right now, claim to "know"? Lemme see... 8-10, depending on if you count some of them as languages in the first place. And even here, "know" is a spectrum. For example, I know JavaScript VERY well, but I just nominally know Python, meaning I can be effective with it, but I have to look a lot up.

@fzammetti oh, wow, i am sincerely surprised. i expected you to be one of the "my first language was JS and I know JS and python" crowd, based on this rant.

@Midnight-shcode Haha, no, I've been at this a little while :)

@fzammetti oh and SQL is definitely a language, just not a programming one =D

and yeah, probably after having to deal with one tenth of the weird obnoxious shit that you had to deal with, i would also have no issue with JS, probably, but i maintain it would say more about my built up resistances than the language itself.

also when people complain about JS they usually mean the whole ecosystem and culture of it, not just the language itself... and that makes huge difference, imo.

i myself (would) almost somewhat like JS, if it was purely about the language.