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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
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Closest alternative
Python

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01 · 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.

Fewer trackers than PerlNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    Python python.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Welcome to Python.org

    The official home of the Python Programming Language

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  2. 02
    Raku® raku.org English No trackers

    Raku®

    The Raku® programming language.

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  3. 03
    PHP php.net Top 1K English 1 tracker

    PHP

    PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

    Compare PHP with Perl →
  4. 04
    rust-lang.org English 1 tracker

    Rust Programming Language

    A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

    Compare rust-lang.org with Perl →
  5. 05
    Wikimedia wikimedia.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Wikimedia

    The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.

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  6. 06
    Swift swift.org English No trackers

    Swift Programming Language

    Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.

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  7. 07
    MariaDB mariadb.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org

    database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL

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  8. 08
    TYPO3 typo3.org English 1 tracker

    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.

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  9. 09
    GNU gnu.org Top 1K English No trackers

    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.

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  10. 10
    Joomla joomla.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    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.

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  11. 11
    DOI.org query endpoint doi.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Home Page

    API endpoint

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  12. 12
    Apache Software Foundation apache.org Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation

    American nonprofit open-source software community

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  13. 13
    Marseille marseille.fr English No trackers

    French commune

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  14. 14
    ICANN icann.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

    ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.

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  15. 15
    RubyGems rubygems.org English No trackers

    RubyGems.org | your community gem host

    package manager for Ruby

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  16. 16
    NetBSD netbsd.org English No trackers

    The NetBSD Project

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  17. 17
    United States House of Representatives house.gov Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Homepage | house.gov

    lower house of the United States Congress

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  18. 18
    FreeBSD freebsd.org Top 10K English No trackers

    The FreeBSD Project

    free Unix-like operating system

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  19. 19
    Canada canada.ca Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Canada.ca

    The Government of Canada website is a single point of access to all programs, services, departments, ministries and organizations of the Government of Canada.

    Compare Canada with Perl →
  20. 20
    Catholic Answers catholic.com English No trackers

    Catholic Faith, Beliefs, & Prayers | Catholic Answers

    Explore the Largest Catholic Database: Beliefs, Practices, Articles, Books, Videos.

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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

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
9,195
Vector
384-d
Query
36 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

Apache Software FoundationJoomlaGNUTYPO3MariaDBSwiftWikimediaPHPRaku®Python

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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
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