Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Perl.com

The 20 closest programming language publication alternatives to Perl.com, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 5 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Perl.com? The closest matches are CPAN, Python and DEV Community. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Perl.com

Perl.com perl.com

Perl.com - programming news, code and culture

Since 1997 Perl.com has published articles about the Perl programming language, its culture and community.

Top 10K · #3,918 English 5 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Perl.com

Summary by Claude

Perl.com publishes articles, tutorials and news about the Perl programming language, its ecosystem (CPAN, toolchain) and community events, including announcements from The Perl and Raku Foundation.

Who it’s for
Perl programmers and open-source developers
Business model
Nonprofit, foundation-supported

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Perl.com’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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

XDA DevelopersThe ConversationDrupalLaravel NewsPHPLotharHabrDEV CommunityPythonCPAN

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Perl.com

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Perl.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    CPAN cpan.org Top 10K English

    The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network - www.cpan.org

    Perl package repository

  2. 02
    Python python.org Top 1K English

    Welcome to Python.org

    The official home of the Python Programming Language

  3. 03
    DEV Community dev.to Top 10K English

    DEV Community

    A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career

  4. 04
    Habr habr.com Top 10K English

    Publications / My feed / Habr

    collaborative blog

  5. 05
    Lothar lothar.com Top 10K

    Lothar of the Webspace

  6. 06
    PHP php.net Top 1K English

    PHP

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

  7. 07
    Laravel News laravel-news.com Top 10K English

    Laravel News: Tutorials, Packages & Framework News

    Laravel News is the official blog of Laravel. Every day bringing you the latest news, tutorials, and packages for the framework.

  8. 08
    Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    free and open-source web content management system

  9. 09
    The Conversation theconversation.com Top 10K

    The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.

    Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.

  10. 10
    XDA Developers xda-developers.com Top 10K English

    XDA

    The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.

  11. 11
    Medium medium.com Top 1K English

    online publishing platform

  12. 12
    Product Hunt producthunt.com Top 10K English

    product discovery website

  13. 13
    R Project r-project.org Top 10K English

    R: The R Project for Statistical Computing

    programming language for statistical analysis

  14. 14
    Infoseek[インフォシーク] infoseek.co.jp Top 10K Japanese

    Infoseek[インフォシーク] - 楽天が運営するニュースサイト

    Infoseek(インフォシーク)は、社会、経済、国際、芸能、スポーツ、IT、天気等の最新ニュースを配信しています。楽天ポイントが獲得出来るお小遣いコンテンツ(ポイ活)やお得な情報も充実しています。

  15. 15
    azbyka.ru Top 10K Russian

    Православный портал «Азбука веры» | Православный сайт

    «Азбука веры» – ведущий религиозный интернет-портал: 40 сайтов, включающих библиотеку, молитвослов, календарь, аудио, видео, викторины...

  16. 16
    Go go.dev Top 10K English

    The Go Programming Language

    Go is an open source programming language that makes it simple to build secure, scalable systems.

  17. 17
    TechCrunch techcrunch.com Top 1K English

    TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News

    TechCrunch | Reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley

  18. 18
    PostgreSQL postgresql.org Top 10K English

    PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database

    The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database

  19. 19
    Apache Software Foundation apache.org Top 1K English

    Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation

    American nonprofit open-source software community

  20. 20
    vc.ru Top 10K Russian

    vc.ru — бизнес, технологии, идеи, модели роста, стартапы

    Крупнейшая в рунете площадка для предпринимателей нового поколения. Новости ИТ-рынка, вакансии рунета, реклама, PR, интерфейсы, мобильные приложения.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to perl.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Perl.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Perl.com is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

CSS & UI
  • Bootstrap asset https://www.perl.com/css/bootstrap.min.css
Analytics
CDN
  • Fastly header x-served-by: cache-dfw-ktki8620061-DFW, cache-ber1080033-BER
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx/1.29.4
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)

Stack changes

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