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.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 15 ms
01 · Entity
About Perl.com
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Perl.com - programming news, code and culture
Since 1997 Perl.com has published articles about the Perl programming language, its culture and community.
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
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Perl.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Perl.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network - www.cpan.org
Perl package repository
Very close cos 0.915 - 02
Welcome to Python.org
The official home of the Python Programming Language
Close cos 0.894 - 03
DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
Close cos 0.892 - 04
Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
Close cos 0.891 - 05
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Close cos 0.884 - 06
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.
Close cos 0.882 - 07
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Close cos 0.885 - 08
XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
Close cos 0.883 - 09
online publishing platform
Close cos 0.879 - 10
product discovery website
Close cos 0.878 - 11
R: The R Project for Statistical Computing
programming language for statistical analysis
Close cos 0.876 - 12
The Go Programming Language
Go is an open source programming language that makes it simple to build secure, scalable systems.
Close cos 0.875 - 13
TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News
TechCrunch | Reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley
Close cos 0.877 - 14
PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database
The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database
Close cos 0.874 - 15
Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation
American nonprofit open-source software community
Close cos 0.874 - 16
Tom's Guide | Tech Product Reviews, Top Picks and How To
Tom's Guide upgrades your life by helping you decide what tech to buy, showing you how to get the most out of it and solving problems as they arise. Tom's Guide is here to help you....
Close cos 0.877 - 17
Patch - Everything Local: Breaking News, Events, Discussions
The best breaking news, stories, and events from the Patch network of local news sites
Close cos 0.874 - 18
NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
Close cos 0.871 - 19
CNET: Product reviews, advice, how-tos and the latest news - CNET
Get full-length product reviews, the latest news, tech coverage, daily deals, and category deep dives from CNET experts worldwide.
Close cos 0.876 - 20
Vercel Security Checkpoint
news site about bitcoin and digital currencies, owned by Digital Currency Group
Close cos 0.874
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
- Google Analytics page source: google-analytics.com/analytics.js
- 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)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: TZowffo_LX2mmsw2DbeNNbukCMnIOA8T-6CMJPiYllI
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Perl.com adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace · not on perl.com 9/20
- Fastly 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on perl.com 6/20
- jQuery · not on perl.com 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on perl.com 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on perl.com 5/20
- Google Analytics 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on perl.com 4/20
- nginx 4/20
- Apple Business · not on perl.com 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on perl.com 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on perl.com 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on perl.com 4/20
- Atlassian · not on perl.com 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on perl.com 4/20