You seem to be confusing "new projects" with "maintained projects". Perl like all the other languages that are heavily used aren't going to be going anywhere.

You seem to be confusing "new projects" with "maintained projects". Perl like all the other languages that are heavily used aren't going to be going anywhere. They're used in legacy code. However, the original comment had a definition. Which says nobody would use it to start a new project. Talking about currently maintained projects doesn't really change the fact it doesn't seem anyone is using it for new projects. > I think the meaningful definition of “dead language” is “nobody will begin a new code base in it any more, except as a hobby or research project”.