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> everyone else would reach for Python, shell or even JavaScript.

The rise of Go as a sysadmin/devops tools language has also probably hurt Perl quite a bit.

I'm skeptical. Perl was in steep decline long before Go became a known quantity.

Just one data point -- my company with over 5,000 developers is completely rewriting nearly all (decades-old) Perl code in Go.

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