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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.

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Pros of Oh My ZSH
Pros of Perl
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    • 72
      Lots of libraries
    • 66
      Open source
    • 61
      Text processing
    • 54
      Powerful
    • 49
      Unix-style
    • 47
      Regex
    • 37
      Stable
    • 32
      Concise syntax
    • 29
      Hackerish
    • 22
      Easy to use
    • 15
      Swiss army chainsaw
    • 13
      Code Less Do More
    • 12
      CPAN
    • 9
      Freedom
    • 8
      All purpose
    • 5
      Many ways to do it
    • 5
      Familiar
    • 5
      Readability
    • 5
      Community
    • 4
      Modular
    • 4
      Smart (does alot for you)
    • 4
      Object-Oriented
    • 3
      Postmodern
    • 3
      It's the best one-off task language
    • 2
      For a man
    • 2
      Good man pages
    • 1
      Auto case variables
    • 1
      Single Source Library (CPAN)
    • 1
      Multi-threaded support
    • 1
      Hashes
    • 1
      C-style
    • 1
      Multiparadigm

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    Cons of Oh My ZSH
    Cons of Perl
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      • 4
        Messy $/@/% syntax
      • 3
        No exception handling
      • 2
        Bad OO support
      • 2
        "1;"
      • 2
        No OS threads
      • 1
        Variables are global by default
      • 1
        Copy-on-create for interpreter-based threads
      • 1
        Barewords
      • 1
        Errors/warnings are ignored by default

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      What is Oh My ZSH?

      A delightful, open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration. It comes bundled with thousands of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, themes.

      What is Perl?

      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.

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