[fijiaarone]

What we need from a programming language is to make medium complexity things, at worst, medium difficulty.

I don’t care about hard problems, and easy problems.

[nextos]

Erlang/OTP does medium difficulty things, i.e. very large applications with good fault tolerance and QoS, really well.

But it's a very different niche. Perl and Ruby scale to mid sized applications quite well, but above that fault tolerance and QoS become hard.

[cutler]

I think with languages like Perl, Ruby and Python you just need a static, compiled language to migrate to at a certain scale, preferably with similar features. Kotlin and Scala seem to be currently the best options for Ruby, Python and OO Perl. For procedural Perl maybe Golang.

[singingfish]

Rust gets large amounts of inspiration from perl so don't forget that one.

[nextos]

Wikipedia quotes Ruby as an influence, but not Perl, citing this source: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/influences.html

Still, Perl might have influenced Rust via Ruby. Otherwise, do you have a reference for Perl's direct influence on Rust?

[dragonwriter]

Python has a number of similar, static, compiled languages that are embeddable in Python code (notably Cython and taichi).