[bliti]

It never left. You won't read about it here because its not in. Remember that this community revolves around a younger generation of programmers that learned to build web cruds with rails. Not a bad thing. They just see Perl as old.

[tarpden]

Perl 5 maintains that perception because of its refusal to break backward compatibility and fix longstanding warts.

[chromatic]

That was true until about 5.12. Since 2011, Perl's been much more aggressive about fixing warts and breaking backwards compatibility in intelligent ways (where it's getting in the way of something better or actively harmful).