Perl

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Overview

HEALTH SCORE

Excellent*

Partial score (2/3 categories)

62out of 65

Strong maintainer coverage. Development cadence is the only remaining gap. Security & Supply Chain is unavailable, so weights were redistributed.

LIFECYCLE

Active

Consistent commits, responsive maintainers, regular releases, and healthy issue triage.

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Health breakdown

Excellent*(62/65)

Maintainer availability, known risks and supply chain posture, and whether the project is actively developed or appropriately stable.

Maintainer responsiveness

Median response time is 0 days.

Bus factor

89 active maintainers currently have merge rights.

Organization Diversity

Contributors span 103 organizations.

Project Achievements

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About

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted programming language that combines features from C, shell scripting, and other languages. It provides powerful text processing capabilities and is known for its flexibility in system administration, web development, network programming, and text manipulation tasks.

First commit

December 1987

Software value

$58M