[kamaal]

>>I know many experienced Unix people hate this trend, but there’s a reason some of the most actively evolving language ecosystems install more and more of their binaries into the user’s home directory.

The future is containers, which is basically increasingly thin images tailored to your application.

These days I struggle to find Perl on many EC2 instance I work on. Its always good to have something like Perl in your installation for some quick scripting work. But most don't have Perl installed.