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I still reach for Perl when bash isn’t enough.
Same. I work primarily in Go and a little bit of Rust these days, but I still throw together a Perl script every year or two to automate something without needing to install something else on the machine or whatnot.
Same. I’m sure python, rust, and all the others are better/cooler/vegan/whatever but perl is what I’m fluent in. More than once have I started to hack together something in python, only to scrap it and start over in perl because I can get it done so much faster. Trust me, my hourly cronjob doesn’t care that it takes half a second more to run. And the UPS doesn’t care that it takes 1mW more to run it. But I care a lot about not dicking around with documentation just to figure out what is pythonic and what isn’t when a shitty perl oneliner will do just fine.