Understood. I stated that to say my problems with perl is not the language itself. To say it is the "community" is not right either. But basically "what is left of the community" is the issue. Languages like python, ruby, perl, etc are only good (if you want to freelance and make money at least) at being a "skin" around a database. That also entails a knowledge of frontend frameworks and workflows as well. Yet the words "database", "javascript", or "webpack" are very rarely mentioned at any of the perl conferences in the last 5 years! In the case of webpack, that's probably never been mentioned.
Well, I've given talks on databases (Postgres), javascript (vue) and modern devops (k8s etc) at various Perl conferences in the last years, so I cannot agree.
In fact, I'm giving a small talk on Docker today at the Perl Conference in the Cloud, and also a lightning talk about a ~50 line tool to provide an async web server to post to Matrix. https://tpc20cic.sched.com/
Yes, there are a few people entrenched in old ways (and sometimes it pays off to not always use the newest tech), but there are also a lof of Perl devs doing current stuff.
