Perl
Text-processing language and the original glue of the web
1 member lists Perl, up 1 in the last 12 weeks, data as of 10 September 2026
Usage on Stackness
1memberup 1 in the last 12 weeks
Members who list Perl in their Stack, by week.
History
Collected from public datasets outside Stackness, not from stacks on this site. Each series is scaled to its own peak because the units do not compare. Data sources
Mentions, monthly
Hacker News mentions mentions: 4 mentions (2007) to 123 mentions (2026)
Imported from Hacker News mentions
Rank, monthly
RedMonk language rankings rank: 11 position (2012) to 19 position (2021)
Imported from RedMonk language rankings
Usage share, yearly
Stack Overflow developer survey usage share: 11.12 % of respondents (2011) to 3.84 % of respondents (2025)
Imported from Stack Overflow developer survey
Pageviews, monthly
Wikipedia pageviews pageviews: 42,916 views (2015) to 15,689 views (2026)
Imported from Wikipedia pageviews
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