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Many people are complaining about IE8 and IE6, but what about even older browsers?

Looking at Stack Overflow, there are actually a few results about IE5(!)

http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=IE5

What are your best practices?

Here's what I could find on my own:

Useful articles:

http://blog.scalyr.com/2013/10/31/angularjs-1200ms-to-35ms/

http://tech.small-improvements.com/2013/09/10/angularjs-performance-with-large-lists/

https://www.exratione.com/2013/12/considering-speed-and-slowness-in-angularjs/

http://orangevolt.blogspot.se/2013/08/superspeed-your-angularjs-apps.html

A video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyYpHIOrk_Y

A book with a chapter on performance: http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Web-Application-Development-AngularJS/dp/1782161821

Motive for question: I really need to get out of my current language rut (PHP+Javascript) and am looking for a powerful all-purpose language to study and learn deeply over the coming years. I would rather just focus on learning one thing very well than try to pick up a half dozen new languages.

Current best candidate: Clojure+Clojurescript. From what I can tell, the differences are so small that they can almost be considered the same language (is this correct?). Which gives me the same benefit that JS has: no mental context-switch between client-side and server-side code.

Using Clojure(script) I can do a lot of stuff:

* Command line applications, think everything from simple cron jobs to daemons to command-line utilities (replaces: clunky PHP scripts)

* Backend servers (replaces: PHP, NodeJs)

* Web client stuff using Clojurescript (replaces: browser-side Javascript)

Potential bonus uses:

* Mobile apps, using either Clojure proper or Clojurescript+Phonegap (replaces: clunky Phonegap apps). I don't know how feasible this is in real life, though.

* Desktop applications (replaces: nothing that I've ever tried). Again, don't know how feasible this really is.

Language features that I like:

* Functional programming

* Good concurrency support

* Homo-iconicity, macros

* Lexical scoping, closures

* Good REPL

* Elegant (AFAICT), not a pile of weird hacks, quirks and gotchas like JS and PHP

* Compiles to JVM (Clojure) or JS (Clojurescript) which makes it/them very portable and able to interact with a huge array of existing code/libraries

So, Clojure/Clojurescript would be my current best bet for a really powerful all-purpose language. It would also be a welcome challenge: I've been doing a lot of functional stuff in the past years, but Clojure would really up the ante there.

Feel free to chime in if you have a suggestion of a different language that could also fit the bill :)

For years, there were pretty much zero articles about Perl posted here. Even Java received more linkage.

Recently, I'm seeing a small trickle of Perl posts, which makes me wonder if this is the beginning of a new trend.

Is Perl making a comeback?