Comment by franticgecko3

I've started learning (in 2025!) and using Perl lately as shell++

It's extremely stable, installed almost everywhere, and has much fewer insane idosyncrasies than shell.

I can write some Perl and confidently hand it to a colleague where it will almost certainly work on their machine.

It's a shame it's so dead, for a scripting language there's nothing else that ticks the same boxes.

I would never write systems software with it, of course