10 Years ago there was the so called Perl Renaissance.
Which should turn Perl around. Sad truth is.
People already moved on.
Everything to little to late and not what the people where looking for.
Number of breaking changes I have experienced in these 7 years? 0.
Number of times I've had any significant issues setting up a new deployment? 0.
It may not be as popular, but it certainly continues to work well.
https://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/category/perl/new-f...
If I write something that I plan to reuse or need again later, I will write it in perl
Never used it myself, just repeating what heard.
It's not like Java/Go/Rust where you really have to wait for new syntax in the language.
I think maybe whoever thinks like this about Perl shouldn't have been using it in the first place because they needed something different, like a strongly typed language.
Php startet as a Perl framework. Ruby is direct reaction to Perls inability to evolve (Perl autobox is great. Why not in core). There is Python. I love Perl. Use it daily. I used Moose, mouse, any::mouse and was excited about p5-mop. But there is no traction in change. Also fact is Perl has a bad image and Perl gets patched out of all projects.
This isn't true. PHP/FI was written in C. Here's Rasmus announcing it to the world in 1995: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.c...
One day I tried Python, learned that everything is passed by object reference, and set Perl aside and never looked back. There was so much less mental overhead that Perl never lured me back.