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Is perl really
It is installed by default everywhere
No hate i’m just surprised
It’s a dependency of a lot of things, including git, lxc, GNU autotools. Check the Required By on the Archlinux repo.
Based solely off the implications of this post, it seems Perl is installed default on most Linux distros and MacOS, but not Windows. https://www.perl.com/article/downloading-and-installing-perl-in-2021/
Before there was python, before there was node, there was perl. It’s old, it’s crufty, it’s a product of a bygone age, but even today if you want to do something with regular expressions and ingesting text it’s still one of the easiest options. Of course it’s highly debatable if you should ever use regex to ingest text.