Perl wasn't bad, in fact I like it's Unixism in it but too bad it lost momentum. Every language has more than one way to do it, so it wasn't a down side, it's j

Perl wasn't bad, in fact I like it's Unixism in it but too bad it lost momentum. Every language has more than one way to do it, so it wasn't a down side, it's just programmers needed to know what they're doing like always. mod_perl worked without running an app server but I still don't know how other languages never implement mod_$lang or $lang-fpm that reloads code on change, so you don't have to place auto restart magic on development. These days you need transpilers (but I don't blame the flourishing of higher level tools when JS, CSS kind of totally stalled from adding useful features and people never let go of old browsers), auto restart of app servers and other build procedures just to get started and that's one of the reason people stick to plain PHP/CSS/JS (loaded independently via script tag...). We do want nice pretty slick GUI that does all that for cross platform to get new people started without asking them to do console magics. I know a few good ones but doesn't seem cross platform.