I promise you there are a lot of really high profile new projects being developed in Perl 5 still. A lot of companies tend not to advertise their use of Perl be

I promise you there are a lot of really high profile new projects being developed in Perl 5 still. A lot of companies tend not to advertise their use of Perl because it has a bad reputation (somewhat undeservingly in my opinion) or because of a tendency for some organisations to be secretive about their infrastructure. But I've worked on some pretty major projects, in Perl, over the last 5 years.