Perl vs Python on the script side has always seemed to me to be a bit up to taste, through I have noticed on the sysadmin side that in general things has moved

Perl vs Python on the script side has always seemed to me to be a bit up to taste, through I have noticed on the sysadmin side that in general things has moved away from Perl towards Python. I also notice that in terms of job listing, there seems to be a lack of new perl programmers in order to support older systems. In terms of build systems, what I have most experience with would be with Debian and their build system, which pulls in the required dependencies. Compatibility in this space is less about zsh vs bash and more in line with architecture difference like RISC vs AMD64.