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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is perl really

It is installed by default everywhere

No hate i’m just surprised

[–] fouc@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It's a dependency of a lot of things, including git, lxc, GNU autotools. Check the Required By on the Archlinux repo.

[–] projectazar 4 points 1 year ago

Based solely off the implications of this post, it seems Perl is installed default on most Linux distros and MacOS, but not Windows. https://www.perl.com/article/downloading-and-installing-perl-in-2021/

[–] furrowsofar 2 points 1 year ago

His table is overly Perl favored. On Linux you will have Bash, Perl, and Python. On Windows none of these. You could have replaced Perl with Python and the argument would be equally or more true yet they rate Python lower.