There's quite a lot of perl about. It seems to have a strong niche in accommodation booking platforms (booking.com and others), and recruitment software (zipre

There's quite a lot of perl about. It seems to have a strong niche in accommodation booking platforms (booking.com and others), and recruitment software (ziprecruiter and others). As well as big chunks propping up various enormous companies (think banks and tech). Perl lacks uniformity of syntax which is sort of a problem, but it does excel at helping to manage the mess that is real world problems. Personally aside from getting sucked into ~ 30% devops over the last few years, I've had trouble finding decently paid work that isn't perl. Last time I got laid off I had an alternative offer within an hour.