Perl is not going away because almost every Linux dstro comes with Perl pre-installed. And Perl is pre-installed because it's a dependency of many old tools. au

Perl is not going away because almost every Linux dstro comes with Perl pre-installed. And Perl is pre-installed because it's a dependency of many old tools. autoconf, automake, ad-hoc build scripts and test suites of many old (established) packages require Perl.