[rurban]

> Although it was basically the most common language to create dynamic webpages in like, 2000, a higher-level framework never emerged, and Perl therefore lost share to Python and Ruby. Python and Ruby were also, in different ways, easier to use than Perl.

No, 3 major perl web frameworks emerged. One is Dancer, the Sinatra equivalent. Then Catalyst, the old MVS monster. And then the modern slim version of it, Mojolicious.

Perl is also easier to use and deploy than python and ruby, as upgrades don't break your scripts and dependencies. In ruby it's better, but native extensions still break all the time. And python is just too broken to be fixable ever. Worse is better.