[nukem222]

Right. Good luck finding people who want to maintain that. It just seems incredibly short-sighted unless the current batch of maintainers intend to live forever.

[sgarland]

Counterpoint: if someone knows Perl, they are much more likely to have the requisite skills to be a maintainer for a distro. It’s self-selection.

Imagine the filtering required for potential maintainers if they rewrote the packaging to JS.