There are Perl interface libraries for everything, so it is often a really great choice, even if it is no longer sexy now that the peak CGI-days have gone. One

There are Perl interface libraries for everything, so it is often a really great choice, even if it is no longer sexy now that the peak CGI-days have gone. One thing that I like about Go is that it promotes testing as something that should be required, but in my experience the vast majority of Perl modules also come with very good test-case coverage, it being the source of the TAP format after all! I've written a few new sites and APIs using the CGI::Application framework over the past few years, and I'll often knock up simple transformation scripts in Perl to glue APIs together and perform ad-hoc transformation of various tools. Although I've mostly started writing new services in golang I don't feel the need to go back and rewrite stable systems in perl.