LeetCode's ignorance of Perl

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Re: LeetCode's ignorance of Perl by hippo (Archbishop) on Jan 12, 2026 at 09:18 UTC
Looking at what is on that list and what is noticeably not, I can only conclude that "venerable" is not a criterion for inclusion. 🦛	[reply]
Re: LeetCode's ignorance of Perl by starX (Chaplain) on Jan 15, 2026 at 18:16 UTC
Fortran is also pretty venerable, still in use, and absent from their list, so take it with a grain of salt. As for me, I'm still celebrating Perl coming in at #11 on TIOBE's list.	[reply]
Re: LeetCode's ignorance of Perl by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Jan 17, 2026 at 04:49 UTC
I agree it's strange, especially given that Perl is now a respectable 11th at Tiobe. My guess is that the LeetCode supported languages are simply based on their skill sets and personal preferences. They may add Perl and other highly rated Tiobe languages later. For fun, I listed the TIOBE Index of their supported languages: Bash - 48th at Tiobe C - 2nd at Tiobe C++ - 4th at Tiobe C# - 5th at Tiobe Dart - 26th at Tiobe ECMAScript - not listed at Tiobe (ECMAScript is a specification or standard, JavaScript is the most popular implementation of that standard) Elixir - 39th at Tiobe Erlang - 43rd at Tiobe Go - 16th at Tiobe Java - 3rd at Tiobe JavaScript - 6th at Tiobe Kotlin - 20th at Tiobe PHP - 15th at Tiobe Python - 1st at Tiobe Racket - 50-100th at Tiobe Ruby - 27th at Tiobe Rust - 13th at Tiobe Scala - 33rd at Tiobe Swift - 22nd at Tiobe TypeScript - 32nd at Tiobe See also : Comparing Programming Languages References 👁️🍾👍🦟	[reply]
Re: LeetCode's ignorance of Perl by harangzsolt33 (Deacon) on Jan 16, 2026 at 05:50 UTC
And why is Python mentioned twice? Okay, Python 2 is not the same as Python 3. I get it, but still... And again, ECMAScript and JavaScript are basically the same thing. lol	[reply]
Re^2: LeetCode's ignorance of Perl by Anonymous Monk on Jan 16, 2026 at 09:47 UTC
OP here. I found two lists of supported languages on their site: The dropdown in their code editor which is reproduced in full including both python versions, and a list of environments which includes things like bash and "vanilla js" or ECMAScript which I added to the first list. https://support.leetcode.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011833974-What-are-the-environments-for-the-programming-languages	[reply]