I found Ruby to be an acceptable Perl. Easier on the mind. Easier on the reader. Still hard on the IDE (since it's dynamically typed, so hard to implement IDE h

I found Ruby to be an acceptable Perl. Easier on the mind. Easier on the reader. Still hard on the IDE (since it's dynamically typed, so hard to implement IDE hints based on the type -- I know some typing is available now). The I found Kotlin to be an acceptable "typed Ruby". :) It's a bit steeper in the learning curve, but apart from that it fits the bill pretty well. Though Ktor is not nearly as rich in ecosystem as Rails is.