Not exactly true. The current lead maintainer for Perl 5 is in his mid 30s at a guess, a large chunk of us are between that and our early 50s. This puts most of us around a decade or two out from retirement.
That said the Perl community does lack a steady stream of fresh young people ready to do impossible things because they don't know they're impossible.
That said the Perl community does lack a steady stream of fresh young people ready to do impossible things because they don't know they're impossible.