Perl did show back up in the TIOBE rankings as #10 and then #9 (Perl5). There are plenty of blog posts and conferences...just not as much as Python, Java, C#...

Perl did show back up in the TIOBE rankings as #10 and then #9 (Perl5). There are plenty of blog posts and conferences...just not as much as Python, Java, C#...etc. Perl6 is starting to get checked out by the first wave of people who like to dive into new tech, so a bunch of blog posts have been showing up recently.