> There is a set of languages which are essentially required to be available on any viable system. At present, these are probably C, C++, Perl, Python, Java, and Bash

Java, really? I don’t think Java has been essential for a long time.

Is Perl still critical?

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FieryMechanic 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

From my experience of building LFS it appears to be needed to built as part of the tool chain.

https://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter07/...

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SSLy 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's extremely hard to build any unixly userspace without perl dependencies.

	▲	bmicraft an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I really do wonder who (as in "which packages") still depends on perl. Surely it can't be that many? Edit: On my (Arch) system removing perl requires removing: auto{conf,make}, git, llvm, glibmm, among others.

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johnny22 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

critical at build time, not runtime