[n_coats]

Nice post! At my most recent job, we used perl daily for processing scripts and many other functions. After initially having similar thoughts about it being "obsolete" and a "dinosaur", I quickly realized how resilient and flexible the language is (I know the flexibility can come with some criticism).

We investigated a lot of other options (go & python specifically) when building new projects, but found that perl was the best solution. It's flexibility allowed us to develop a custom and durable solution that surpassed our expectations.

We ran into some environment/portability issues and resorted to using docker, carton, and gitlab CI to solve these problems. It is incredible how reliable and easy it became to modify and deploy code to a variety of systems (new or old).

[rsync]

"After initially having similar thoughts about it being "obsolete" and a "dinosaur", I quickly realized how resilient and flexible the language is (I know the flexibility can come with some criticism)."

Not obsolete - can affirm. All of the Oh By[1] back end is written in perl, circa 2016. We use apache + mod_perl and are very happy with this environment ... just like we were in 1998.

[1] https://0x.co

[jrumbut]

Any thoughts about switching to plack? It seems like maybe you could get some low effort performance/developer experience improvements.

[n_coats]

Obsolete was the wrong word - Perl definitely still works (very well for certain things). Cool to see new applications being developed in it still!