hi, i was interested if perl is still relevant in this day and age. Perl has been on the decline for a very long time now. Perl 6 (now named 'raku) not being backwards compatible with perl 5 code made the already small perl community even smaller by splitting it in half. A good example is lisp with it’s thousands of different dialects.
Is it still worth using or is it bound to legacy software forever? Like cobol.
Sure you can, doesn’t mean people do it. From my experience, they don’t.
Define “people”. People you work with? Old codebases from your workplace?
Well, from my experience, people don’t write illegible perl code.