Perl, for all its quirkiness, remains my favourite language - even though I've never done any professional work in it, and I took it up long after its glory days. A shame how it plummeted. It feels like "Unix, but as a scripting language!"

I've never been able to love Python, PHP, JS, Ruby or any other dynamic language the same way.

Maybe I would like Raku too, but I wonder if it's worth the effort - the languages are similar, and I already know all the quirks of one. A bit like learning Dutch after German?