Perl5 may be making a run, but I think it'll be short-lived. The thing is, you can pick a language like Golang, Python, Ruby, or Javascript now and build your

Perl5 may be making a run, but I think it'll be short-lived. The thing is, you can pick a language like Golang, Python, Ruby, or Javascript now and build your entire backend stack in it. That's a really powerful idea. Python has become particularly ubiquitous in web frameworks, machine learning, data science, devops, and general scripting and data munging. It may be the one language right now that you can't actually not use it for at least something in your stack.