It’s hard to believe that 10k is worth whatever they need from Perl in 2025.

I wrote Perl for many years while I worked on the godforsaken cmecf system.

Cmecf this year announced it had been hacked by Russian hackers.

This means that cmecf written in Perl allowed a country access to Federal Court evidence including intelligence gathering methods, corporate secrets, and inside sources.

Perl is not memory safe, loaded with security issues for over a decade. It’s only saving grace is string manipulation, which is exactly why the best hackers in the world all know it.