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Perl
Who runs Perl, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest programming language project alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Python
Measured from Perl’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Perl01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Perl
Perl perl.org
The Perl Programming Language at Perl.org. Links and other helpful resources for new and experienced Perl programmers.
Wikidata: interpreted programming language first released in 1987
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Perl tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
14 of the 20 alternatives below have fewer, 0 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Perl
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Perl, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Welcome to Python.org
The official home of the Python Programming Language
Very close - 02
Raku®
The Raku® programming language.
Very close - 03
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Very close - 04 Very close
- 05
The Programming Language Lua
Official website of the Lua language
Very close - 06
Rust Programming Language
A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
Very close - 07
Wikimedia
The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.
Very close - 08
Swift Programming Language
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
Very close - 09
MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org
database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL
Very close - 10 Close
- 11
TYPO3 Project and Governance — Democratic Open Source - TYPO3 Project
The TYPO3 project is a volunteer community backed by a not-for-profit member association, and a fully-owned service company.
Very close - 12
The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement
Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.
Very close - 13
Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!
Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.
Very close - 14
Home Page
API endpoint
Very close - 15
Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation
American nonprofit open-source software community
Very close - 16
French commune
Very close - 17 Very close
- 18
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
Very close - 19
RubyGems.org | your community gem host
package manager for Ruby
Very close - 20
The NetBSD Project
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Perl’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Perl uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Perl adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 30 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Perl’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://cdn.perl.org/perlweb/js/perlweb_bootstrap.min.js
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:400,100,300,700,900
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-dfw-kdfw8210122-DFW, cache-ber1080055-BER
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=B57sRQpmte4G4w-gavZbVNmmNsMxGp5kcL19U…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Nf5wLg9C9JrZTa91Ve-_Nj9M8tuRJ6G_RWfsTHyQUuQ
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Google Workspace · not on perl.org 8/20
- jQuery · not on perl.org 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on perl.org 6/20
- Fastly 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on perl.org 5/20
- Font Awesome · not on perl.org 4/20
- nginx · not on perl.org 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on perl.org 4/20
- PHP · not on perl.org 4/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on perl.org 4/20
- GlobalSign 3/20
- jsDelivr · not on perl.org 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on perl.org 3/20
- Mailgun · not on perl.org 2/20
- OpenAI · not on perl.org 2/20