I use perl5 like that, but honestly I sometimes script in Tcl because I'm too used to applications perl. For me perl5 is lexical scoping, closures, map/grep/re

I use perl5 like that, but honestly I sometimes script in Tcl because I'm too used to applications perl. For me perl5 is lexical scoping, closures, map/grep/reduce, and an OO model that steals the best of python (ignoring ruby's crippled OO which involved failing to steal from smalltalk properly) and then adds a first class attribute system so you can declare attributes once and not need to re-type the names to get a working constructor. ES6 isn't bad, mind - with 'use strict' and 'let' it's close to a usable perl5 apart from the fact that its errors are runtime instead of compile time (typescript helps there of course) and the OO is still relatively limited, but I have some ideas using decorators that should bring the best of perl5 OO to javascript since I've been unable to convince anybody else to steal our features already