[bow_]

Back when I was getting more serious about programming (2010-ish), I had to decide between Perl vs Python as those two were the most widely used in my domain (bioinformatics).

I remember one of the argument for Perl was exactly this: the vast number of libraries in CPAN. You would be able to do tasks much quicker because you would just need to install these libraries and go on with your tasks.

Still, I decided to go with Python because it made so many 'click' for me about programming in general + because of its REPL, among other things.

It turned out to be one of the best decisions I have ever made :).