[HL33tibCe7]

> There's a lot of funky syntax and features available but you do not have to use any of them.

The problem is that it's difficult to know which features you should use and which you shouldn't. And good luck enforcing your desired style if you're working with other developers (it's possible, but painful).

Perl is a highly complicated language with many sharp edges that catch out even experienced Perl devs.

The Perl ecosystem is also completely dead: modules languish with no updates, there is no decent tooling to speak of.

Of course, this new language also has no ecosystem. But maybe one day it will. Let's not stamp out its flame for no reason.

[pronik]

Perl was literally reborn with "Perl Best Practices". Perl::Critic has more rules that you'd ever wish for, Perl::Tidy is the most configurable code formatter there is. This had been true for 10-15 years already. Which part do you find painful and is this your idea of "no decent tooling"?

[mlhpdx]

You're arguing against Perl or JavaScript?