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I believe booking.com ran on perl for a very long time. Maybe still does. ~relevant quotes from https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ...

In #devops is turtle all way down but at bottom is perl script. - @devops_borat

Comedy: You, trying to launch a startup from scratch using Java. Tragedy: Me, trying to debug 27k lines of legacy Perl that brings $113MM/yr - @NeckbeardHacker

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I read a lengthy blog post on how Booking.com basically has people code live in production (slight exaggeration) and they're fine with it, due to some monster of a monitoring test suite.

It still does. Booking and ZipRecruiter are easily the two largest employers of Perl programmers.

Booking has been around forever but I thought the later was a newish company? Did they consciously pick Perl in 2010 when they launched? I guess that makes sense if that’s the founders’ background and their business model is practically (crawling and) extracting and reporting job postings from all over the web.

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