[mst]

People who make complaints like that are privileging their own personal aesthetics over pragmatism.

Same mistake as the people who keep talking about perl being "dead" while they're deploying their production platforms on debian or red hat based systems and ignoring the fact that the packaging and release QA work for those distros is substantially dependent on - actively maintained by the distros in question - perl projects.

[lmm]

Sounds like someone else is putting their personal aesthetics over pragmatism. Perl is a dead language walking, the fact that there are some tools it hasn't been worth rewriting doesn't contradict that.

[mst]

I'm talking about actively chosen new development because it's still the dynamic language most oriented towards being comfortable as part of a unix environment rather than simply running on top of one.

Modern async/await + heavily OO based perl is not, I suspect, the language that you're thinking of when you made your comment.