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It’s interesting that while macOS is weeding out scripting language runtimes as the internal tools get rewritten (in Swift, I presume), one that is likely to prevail is Perl, so deeply is it entrenched there.

Curiously enough, Ventura ships with not one but two perls, 5.18 and 5.30. I haven’t yet investigated which tools there are using Perl. (It could also be that some prominent third party applications still call out to Perl, expect it to be there, and vendors asked nicely. How else would you explain the 5.18?)

It seems to be an apt illustration of the Lindy effect more than anything.