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It's a tool. If you ever need to slice and dice text, AWK is great. Sure, perl is great too, but I can never remember perl and stopped writing perl. I rarely use AWK by itself, it's usually with a mixture of other unix tools.

I once wrote code with curl, awk, sed, jq, xargs and in less than 30 lines implemented something that would have taken about 200 lines of go code. I did it too in less than an hour when I was told it would take a day. It was urgent and I needed the result fast.

There are different kind of hammers, different kind of nails and screws. Know your tools, use them when it's called for. You can use a wrench as a hammer, doesn't make it a great one.