You tossed out a statistic on library submissions and are debating psychology(mindshare). Nothing is dwindling on the long term for Perl. >>Dev ops have moved

You tossed out a statistic on library submissions and are debating psychology(mindshare). Nothing is dwindling on the long term for Perl. >>Dev ops have moved to Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc, and Python and other languages are used as the glue. This is glue? Sorry but we seem to come from very different worlds. >>Also far smaller, devs wise. Wow, Just wow! You probably won't like to hear this, but this how most of the software world works: 1. C based backend language: Java. C Based embedded/speed requirement systems: C/C++ 2. Glue: Shell/Perl 3. Web dev: Node, Java(Webservices) 4. Lisp Based languages backend: Clojure/Racket. 5. ML based languages backend: F#, OCaml, Haskell. 6. Database: SQL. There are other special languages which rule their domain. But this is how bulk of the world works. Data science area is still a extremely small part of even the web dev world, let alone the broader software ecosystem.