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Perl

A general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, GUI development, and more

Rank
380
Increased by 19
Git Repositories
perl5
Started
1987-12-18 13,549 days ago
Alternatives to
ColdFusion
GitHub Stars
2,015 #2,445
Stackoverflow Questions with tag perl
68,274 #60
Weekly commits since inception
1987 2006 2025
Weekly contributors since inception
1987 2006 2025
Recent Project Activity
Day Span Commits Contributors
30 79 #487 14 #468
90 356 #443 26 #536
365 1,705 #450 64 #645
1095 5,965 #435 153 #700
All time 79,289 1,174
Contributing Individuals
Commits past X days
Contributor 30 90 All
1 Karl Williamson 3 102 11,562
2 Jarkko Hietaniemi 0 0 9,093
3 Nicholas Clark 0 0 6,823
4 Father Chrysostomos 0 0 6,563
5 David Mitchell 22 86 4,001
6 Tony Cook 3 15 2,074
7 Rafael Garcia-Suarez 0 0 3,056
8 Gurusamy Sarathy 0 0 2,846
9 Yves Orton 0 0 1,426
10 Steve Hay 21 21 2,155
11 Paul LeoNerd Evans 1 12 524
12 Chris 'BinGOs' Williams 0 1 1,557
13 Craig A. Berry 0 0 1,350
14 Ricardo Signes 0 0 1,117
15 Lukas Mai 13 39 336
16 James E Keenan 1 2 875
17 H. Merijn Brand 0 0 697
18 Steve Peters 0 0 729
19 Richard Leach 2 19 256
20 Graham Knop 0 0 160
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