A lot of comments seem to be equating dying with dead. So, let's agree that Perl is _not_ dead.

Is it dying? it isn't as popular as other languages, and it isn't being used for as many new projects. Therefore, you could say it is dying a slow death like a lot of languages before it. It will continue to be used in existing code bases for decades to come, but like Cobol it likely isn't going to be the go-to language for most projects.

Will Perl 6 change the trend? Maybe? I don't think we know enough to rule that out.

If it _is_ dying, I often wonder if it was a self-imposed death. If Perl 6 hadn't been delayed so long, we might be living in a world where Python didn't become the go-to language. But was that ever a real possibility? Could we have gotten to Perl 6 as "easily" as we got to Python 3? Anybody have an opinion on that?