#perl

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #perl from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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21
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
15
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0.2/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
1.5
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40
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Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
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Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-16 14:30 UTC
0
09-10
3
09-11
1
09-12
3
09-13
7
09-14
3
09-15
4
09-16

21 uses by 15 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-16 14:30 UTC
#perl5
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#Perlach
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#perla
2 uses · 2 accounts / 7d
#perlonjava
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#perle
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#Perleberg
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#perlis
1 uses · 1 accounts / 7d
#perlmutt
1 uses · 1 accounts / 7d
#perl6
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#perlenfermentationfestival
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#perlaindependencia
1 uses · 1 accounts / 7d
#perlweeklychallenge
1 uses · 1 accounts / 7d

Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-16 14:30 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~257 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 00:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (34)

Avg boosts / post: 1.3

Top of the latest posts

  • Also, #Perl taught me a lesson that’s still in process for a whole lot of agentic prompt folk: writing the code is easy. Adding the feature is easy. Maintaining it? Testing? Fixing that weird corner bug? Somebody else reading it? Knowing wh

    Random Geek@[email protected]♥ 9↻ 32026-09-08 21:38 UTCView post →

  • Yet another case of “an hour or two to write it in a language from the industry menu, five minutes to write it in #Perl.” This has more to do with language familiarity and the fact that I’m targeting text-processing command line functionali

    Random Geek@[email protected]♥ 9↻ 02026-09-08 13:01 UTCView post →

  • Yay! Today I had my talk for YAPC::Tokyo 2026 accepted! 🚀 Title: "What is an OSS Ecosystem Steward, and can we have one?" Looks like I'll go on a trip! 😄 https://fortee.jp/yapc-tokyo-2026/proposal/71b322a4-14f5-42d9-bac6-18a9956019c4 (Lin

    Salve J. Nilsen@[email protected]♥ 5↻ 22026-09-15 19:13 UTCView post →

What “perl” means

Wikipedia

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms in use, including "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language".

“Perl” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#perl across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #perl straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.

X (Twitter) ↗Instagram ↗TikTok ↗Facebook ↗LinkedIn ↗YouTube ↗Threads ↗Bluesky ↗Mastodon ↗Reddit ↗Pinterest ↗Tumblr ↗

Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/perl