Perl has decades worth of high quality libraries to do heavy lifting. https://metacpan.org https://metacpan.org You can get away with easy scripting for creatin

Perl has decades worth of high quality libraries to do heavy lifting. https://metacpan.org https://metacpan.org You can get away with easy scripting for creating significant programs. UNIX commandline and Perl is a match made in heaven. Using Golang will demand significantly more effort when doing more complex stuff but will give you concurrency, easier deploys/multi-platform support and better performance if doing CPU intensive stuff.