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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
417
Decreased by 7
Git Repositories
perl5
Started
1987-12-18 13,564 days ago
Alternatives to
ColdFusion
GitHub Stars
2,025 #2,451
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 93 #575 15 #528
90 324 #497 26 #557
365 1,689 #453 61 #670
1095 5,956 #436 151 #711
All time 79,330 1,174
Contributing Individuals
Commits past X days
Contributor 30 90 All
1 Karl Williamson 17 85 11,580
2 Jarkko Hietaniemi 0 0 9,093
3 Nicholas Clark 0 0 6,823
4 Father Chrysostomos 0 0 6,563
5 David Mitchell 12 72 4,002
6 Tony Cook 4 13 2,075
7 Rafael Garcia-Suarez 0 0 3,056
8 Gurusamy Sarathy 0 0 2,846
9 Steve Hay 26 30 2,164
10 Yves Orton 0 0 1,426
11 Chris 'BinGOs' Williams 1 1 1,558
12 Paul LeoNerd Evans 1 12 524
13 Craig A. Berry 0 0 1,350
14 Ricardo Signes 0 0 1,117
15 James E Keenan 1 2 875
16 Lukas Mai 14 30 338
17 Richard Leach 5 19 262
18 H. Merijn Brand 0 0 697
19 Steve Peters 0 0 729
20 Graham Knop 0 0 160
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