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in reply to Perl Contempt in My Workplace

I agree with you and share your feelings.

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.

~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 :) )

However - now I pretty much understand and even support a point of perl refusals.
There are too much missing things in Perl right now:

starting from about ~10 years ago things have globally changed.

Now some personal recent experience.

Recently I tried to use JQuery/Datatables and even found several CPAN modules for it, tried to use these and failed.
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.

Perl is no longer of that 20 years ago.
Sorry, guys.

I am still missing 'use strict' in Python, and 'use strict' of NodeJS is not as complete as Perl's one. And also missing brevity of regexps,

....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.