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vkon
I agree with you and share your feelings.
<p>I like Perl syntax. Coding/using in perl is enjoyable experience, whereas on other languages there are many places which are not as good as in Perl.
<p>~10 years ago Perl ecosystem was huge - you could find almost everything on CPAN - it was clear for me that Perl solution is always the best (well, almost :) )
<p>However - now I pretty much understand and even support a point of perl refusals.<br>There are too much missing things in Perl right now:
<ul>
<li>
CPAN no longer covers all modern techniques:
<ul>
<li>WebASM - there was some discussion on p5p about a year ago but this went nowhere.
<li>"neural network" and other data science - there are some old modules but ecosystem is almost empty, at least compared to other languages
<li> etc.etc.etc...
</ul>
<li>
Core language:
<ul>
<li>simple file reads which are present in Python/NodeJS but "cumbersome" in Perl.<br>I want functionality of <code>IO::All</code> but available everywhere even without CPAN access. <code>IO::All</code> is too heavy
<li>Sets and simple things like <code>'x' in ('a' .. 'z')</code>; I can write <code>exists {map{$_=>1}'a' .. 'z'}->{x}</code> but this is too much. Core language does not have this as simple as I want it
</ul></ul>
<p>
starting from about ~10 years ago things have globally changed.
<p>Now some personal recent experience.<p>
Recently I tried to use JQuery/Datatables and even found several CPAN modules for it, tried to use these and failed.<br>After I've failed in perl, I succeeded with NodeJS on that, I got what I needed. I had confirmation on my table that other language's ecosystem is more current.
<p>Perl is no longer of that 20 years ago.<br>Sorry, guys.
<p>I am still missing <code>'use strict'</code> in Python, and <code>'use strict'</code> of NodeJS is not as complete as Perl's one. And also missing brevity of regexps, <p>
....but also I understood that brevity of regexps is compensated by additional code which is needed for instant file reads and other missing core features.
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