I wonder how much of the web still runs on perl. I miss it sometimes.

mushufasa 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I used to help nonprofits and small businesses build websites. Process always went like 1. buy domain, 2. buy a shared hosting provider that one-click-installs Wordpress, 3. use a theme to begin editing the website. Often, I would also use the email included with that hosting provider for the firm.

ALL of that goes through cpanel, for every shared hosting provider I can ever remember using. Even if the stuff happening on those servers didn't use perl, cpanel itself -- the admin of everything provided for that domain by the hosting provider -- it's a huge surface area.

	▲	debo_ 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah cpanel navigation is still wired into my brain stem as well.

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stevekemp 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I still deploy a bunch of simple sites, built around the CGI::Application framework.

I understand how they work, I'm familiar with HTML::Template, and related modules, so I can hack up a quick interactive/dynamic site in a couple of hours.

They're no longer things I'd run on the public internet, but for quick internal things it's very easy to deploy a container with a perl backend.