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If only it didn't feel like it passed away years ago. :(

I mean I still write Perl for my day job, and I like the language, but unfortunately that doesn't change the reality.

We still have a few projects running Perl under mod_perl. They are about absolutely wonderful to manage, and the developers love working on them. Still, you're right, reality is that there are no new Perl projects. In our case Flask and FastAPI has taken the role of as default framework for APIs and with Java and Springboot being the default for everything else.

Some days you just want to work on something simple, something old-school, and for those days, Perl is happiness.

Agree 100%. Perl is life.

I started with Perl but moved to Ruby in the mid 00s. Ruby always felt like it gave me everything Perl did (performance aside, at the time), but with syntax that felt more intuitive.

Ruby's the most intuitive language I've ever used and my favorite to write in, but Perl and raw JavaScript are just dirty, tough, cowboy languages that are a blast to code in. You can just let go with all the best practices and write some gnarly stuff.

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