#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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16
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
13
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0.2/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0.3
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 · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-12 04:13 UTC
4
09-06
3
09-07
2
09-08
4
09-09
0
09-10
3
09-11
0
09-12

16 uses by 13 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-12 04:13 UTC
#perl5
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#perl6
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#Perlach
5 uses · 4 accounts / 7d
#Perla
2 uses · 2 accounts / 7d
#Perleberg
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#perler
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#perle
1 uses · 1 accounts / 7d
#perlonjava
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#perlou
1 uses · 1 accounts / 7d
#Perlis
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#perl基礎・入門
1 uses · 1 accounts / 7d
#perlesdubac
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d

Live pulse

measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-12 04:13 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~215 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 20:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (30) · French (1) · German (1)

Avg boosts / post: 0.9

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]♥ 4↻ 32026-09-08 21:38 UTCView post →

  • Very pleased with Kimi K.3 which I took for a ride today via #GithubCopilot. Good questions, solid plans, efficient, token frugal implementations in a multilanguage project with multiple branches: C, #Python, #Perl, #rstats #make. It handle

    Christos Argyropoulos@[email protected]♥ 2↻ 22026-09-05 21:00 UTCView post →

  • @Moray you may also be able to tell them apart by the terminal they're attached to. And on many platforms a #perl (and presumably #raku has something similar too) application can set $0 to whatever it likes: ``` duckpond:~ $ perl -E '$0="OM

    David Cantrell 🏏@[email protected]♥ 2↻ 02026-09-05 18:46 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