[dozzie]

> For example, Perl is the most "disliked" language; what that really means is that developers have actively listed it as a job opportunity they don't want.

In the specific case of Perl, this makes the analysis highly skewed. I liked using Perl (I no longer write in it because my current team already knew Python well and not even a bit of Perl), but almost all the job ads around me that mention Perl come from big, old corporations. I wouldn't want to maintain a corporate internal tool written in Perl, because Perl in such an environment means a very old and overgrown script (virtually all newer are written in Python) in a complex and complicated system that cannot be updated to modern architectural standards, and Perl from '90s and early '00s has a history of being used mainly by dilettantes who couldn't tell global and local variables apart.

[petre]

We have rewritten a web app that used CGI.pm and ported it to Mojolicious. It also uses JavaScript on the front end. I'll choose Perl any day over JavaScript/ES/Node.js. There is still innovation going on in the Perl5 community, like Mojolicious, Promises, Moo, MOP, Moxie etc. Most tooling is sane and you don't end up with competing package managers, a plethora of build tools, transpilers, frameworks and an endless chain of dependencies.