Since 2016, I've been doing a lot of work regarding the Raspberry Pi with Perl.

Everyone has their interests, engagements and excitement, but I've been working very hard on a significant test platform for my Perl software against the Pi, but I'm starting to understand that there's few others besides me who uses it.

Yes, it's totally a hobby, and I'm happy doing the datasheet translation, soldering of ICs, calculation of resistors and capacitors etc, but is there any real reason to continue to do this for Perl if it isn't being used by anyone else? I enjoy doing this; I enjoy writing the low-level code and bringing it to front so that there's a Perl API. I enjoy this community.

Is it only us old-timers here anymore? What if I sold hardware kits to put together? Does it matter anymore?

I am not saying I will stop writing code for stuff for the Pi in Perl (because Perl is, and will always be my favourite language), I'm just questioning my moves forward. Python clearly has its shit together, but script writers in Python are (typically) not that great, so I'm at a loss here.

This is a mind-fsck question, so answers be damned. I'm as lost as you are ;)

In reply to Is Perl on the Raspberry Pi worth it? by stevieb

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