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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
466
Decreased by 23
Git Repositories
perl5
Started
1987-12-18 13,533 days ago
Alternatives to
ColdFusion
GitHub Stars
2,004 #2,441
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 26 #1,114 12 #531
90 337 #482 25 #573
365 1,679 #463 64 #649
1095 5,887 #448 154 #698
All time 79,164 1,174
Contributing Individuals
Commits past X days
Contributor 30 90 All
1 Karl Williamson 4 144 11,550
2 Jarkko Hietaniemi 0 0 9,093
3 Nicholas Clark 0 0 6,823
4 Father Chrysostomos 0 0 6,563
5 David Mitchell 0 53 3,947
6 Tony Cook 0 18 2,067
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 1 1 2,135
11 Paul LeoNerd Evans 0 12 523
12 Chris 'BinGOs' Williams 0 1 1,557
13 Craig A. Berry 0 0 1,350
14 Ricardo Signes 0 0 1,117
15 James E Keenan 1 1 874
16 Lukas Mai 1 30 324
17 H. Merijn Brand 0 0 697
18 Steve Peters 0 0 729
19 Richard Leach 2 23 250
20 Graham Knop 0 1 160
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