I do, but it's really mainly due to my day job which heavily relies on it still 
(and I'd like to experiment with how work stuff performs on 9front). I am not 
planning on getting back to addressing any work on it until the end of this 
year.

On Mon, Jun 30, 2025, at 4:31 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Quoth sirjofri via 9fans <[email protected]>:
>> 
>> Actually, I was asked about perl support a while ago. I think the biggest 
>> issues with those labguages is that nobody would be willing to maintain the 
>> upstream support in a useful way.
> 
> Perl has *some* support committed upstream.  The maintainers
> pinged me a while ago to figure out if it was still working,
> so I took a look and fixed a few preprocessor bugs.
> 
> Unobe looked at a couple more issues, and reported that it
> worked on 386, but on amd64 it crashed deep in the regex engine.
> I fixed a couple of small bugs, but eventually gave up.
> 
> If there's actual interest in running perl, I think it's not
> so much debugging away from working, and the fixes are probably
> very upstreamable.
> 
> The bigger problem is interest -- I don't have perl code I care
> to run, does anyone else here?
> 

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