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It's not sexy enough to be talked about, but it is still there.

50% of my (new) projects remain in Perl. The other 50% in a mixture of C, Go, and C++.

90% of the stuff I write is in Perl. The other 10% is Tcl.

I design semiconductors and every week I have to write a couple of small scripts to process text files or reports and that is always in Perl. Everyone at work knows Perl. Those that don't learn it.

The EDA tools mostly use Tcl as the internal scripting language so I have to use that.

I have no problem with new languages but I find regex's in other languages to be too verbose.

>>It's a shame Perl isn't still used.

Perl is still one of the most widely used languages in world today.

I have used Perl extensively in all of my last 4 jobs. The biggest reason companies that use Perl (that I am familar with) are looking at other languages is because it is hard to find developers.

Why is that a shame? It still exists, there's nothing stopping anyone from using it.

I think it's safe to assume that the people choosing not to use perl have a good enough reason for their decision.