On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 at 22:33, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not happy with the state of Perl, as it has made some MAJOR missteps along the way, particularly in the last 5
years.But can we dispel this strawman? There is a difference between "unpopular" and "unmaintained". The latest version
ofPerl was released May 20, 2024. The latest release of Test::More was April 25, 2024. Both are heavily used. Just not
asheavily as they used to be. :)
Sorry, yes I exaggerated here. Looking at the last Perl changelog[1]
it's definitely getting more new features and improvements than I had
thought.
Test::More on the other hand, while indeed still maintained, it's
definitely not getting significant new feature development or
improvements[2]. Especially when comparing it to pytest[3].
[1]: https://perldoc.perl.org/perldelta
[2]: https://github.com/Test-More/test-more/blob/master/Changes
[3]: https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/changelog.html