Modern Perl using Moose is pretty nice to develop in. I find it much easier to express things in Perl than in Go, but I am not an expert in either language despite having several years practice with the former and a couple of years with the latter.
http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl_2016/
I'd say the biggest issue with Perl is that modules on the CPAN are slowly going stale, and that my understanding is that there is a lot of Perl (C) and XS (C FFI) code that is not actively maintained or necessarily properly developed (including, I believe, parts of the Perl runtime itself). This can lead to segfaults with who knows what behavior.
Take this with a grain of salt: I've never been a good C programmer.
An aside: one of my coworkers is a founder of MetaCPAN, which is a great site.