I think it's very widely used for its original purpose, which is a shell replacement. When I need a short script, particularly for text processing, I'll usually

I think it's very widely used for its original purpose, which is a shell replacement. When I need a short script, particularly for text processing, I'll usually reach for Perl now that the Perl 5/Perl 6 thing has been resolved. Just look at the activity on CPAN: https://metacpan.org/recent https://metacpan.org/recent There are two heavily developed/used web frameworks for Perl: https://mojolicious.org/ https://mojolicious.org/ and http://perldancer.org/ http://perldancer.org/ Users of Mojolicious: https://github.com/mojolicious/mojo/wiki/Projects-and-Companies-using-Mojolicious https://github.com/mojolicious/mojo/wiki/Projects-and-Compan...