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> Aside from the variety of languages in the extension ecosystem That's a big one to omit. But alright, I'll play. It has much less packages, it's almost never used on windows, it has stopped being popular 10 years ago, it doesn't have anaconda because it's not a "corporate tech", you rarely install several versions of perl on the same system, you don't make enough projects with perl to justify one isolation per project, nobody moved to perl 6 so the all CPAN transition never had to happened, perl is not used to script DB/GIS systems/3D engines/IDE, perl is not used by millions of non coders (geographers, mathematicians, physicists, bankers, etc) that have no idea how their machine work. But to be honest, the nail in the cofin is that distros decided not to split perl and cpan in separate packages. In fact, in somes distros, perl and cpan are already installed and ready to be used. So for linux: - python: you must decide among several python, then intall the right package to use pip and venv, isolate your install with venv. The procedure is different for windows. Also 2.7 is a thing. - perl: you have one perl that hasn't change for years, no new packages, it's already installed, cpan is installed as well, and it's not gonna break your system if you use it. You don't care about windows. Perl 5 forever. |