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Oh My ZSH vs Perl: What are the differences?
Developers describe Oh My ZSH as "A framework for managing your Zsh configuration". A delightful, open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration. It comes bundled with thousands of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, themes. On the other hand, Perl is detailed as "Highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over 26 years of development". Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, GUI development, and more.
Oh My ZSH can be classified as a tool in the "Shell Utilities" category, while Perl is grouped under "Languages".
Oh My ZSH and Perl are both open source tools. Oh My ZSH with 91.5K GitHub stars and 17K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Perl with 436 GitHub stars and 152 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Perl has a broader approval, being mentioned in 133 company stacks & 64 developers stacks; compared to Oh My ZSH, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 18 developer stacks.
Pros of Oh My ZSH
Pros of Perl
- Lots of libraries72
- Open source66
- Text processing61
- Powerful54
- Unix-style49
- Regex47
- Stable37
- Concise syntax32
- Hackerish29
- Easy to use22
- Swiss army chainsaw15
- Code Less Do More13
- CPAN12
- Freedom9
- All purpose8
- Many ways to do it5
- Familiar5
- Readability5
- Community5
- Modular4
- Smart (does alot for you)4
- Object-Oriented4
- Postmodern3
- It's the best one-off task language3
- For a man2
- Good man pages2
- Auto case variables1
- Single Source Library (CPAN)1
- Multi-threaded support1
- Hashes1
- C-style1
- Multiparadigm1
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Cons of Oh My ZSH
Cons of Perl
- Messy $/@/% syntax4
- No exception handling3
- Bad OO support2
- "1;"2
- No OS threads2
- Variables are global by default1
- Copy-on-create for interpreter-based threads1
- Barewords1
- Errors/warnings are ignored by default1