[visarga]

This language must be the spiritual successor of Perl

[TurboHaskal]

I inherited some piece of code that made use of an extremely long and complicated jq script.

I simply gave up understanding the whole thing, and restored the balance in the universe by rewriting it in Perl.

[hnlmorg]

Now you just need to rewrite Perl in Rust and compile that to WebAssembly. And the circle of HN is complete.

[LargeTomato]

I know perl is useful. I know it's going to help me. It seems like you can get away with a quick perl script whereas a python script would attract scrutiny.

But it's such a painful language to look at.