Node/NPM definitely is on-par with CPAN. But pip isn't even close.
The real deal with Perl is you not only get bleeding stuff, you get all kind of obscure and rare libraries. Its not that you can't do that in Python. Its just that the culture in Python world isn't made up of people who think about those problems or even in that dimension. Its a great language for writing all variety of apps.
Perl is the og hacker's language. Python is awesome too, but its not really what Perl is.
Most of the bad rep Perl gets is because programmers who only interact with http endpoints and databases tend to not understand where else it could be useful.
Like even the regexes. They sound like a pain, until you have to do non trivial string manipulation tasks. Then you discover, regexes do it a lot better than cutting and slicing strings some 100s of times.
The real deal with Perl is you not only get bleeding stuff, you get all kind of obscure and rare libraries. Its not that you can't do that in Python. Its just that the culture in Python world isn't made up of people who think about those problems or even in that dimension. Its a great language for writing all variety of apps.
Perl is the og hacker's language. Python is awesome too, but its not really what Perl is.
Most of the bad rep Perl gets is because programmers who only interact with http endpoints and databases tend to not understand where else it could be useful.
Like even the regexes. They sound like a pain, until you have to do non trivial string manipulation tasks. Then you discover, regexes do it a lot better than cutting and slicing strings some 100s of times.