Python isn't even remotely close to the popularity Perl had or its omnipresence till date. Python couldn't reach the peak of nearly anything it tried. For serio

Python isn't even remotely close to the popularity Perl had or its omnipresence till date. Python couldn't reach the peak of nearly anything it tried. For serious app dev Java/Golang won, Web is ruled by JS/React, C/C++/Rust rules places where performance is more critical. Python's refusal to take text and OS work serious has largely rendered it useless for serious scripting work. People use shell and old timers use Perl. In the AI world, Python use is mostly invoke a series of framework API(a few hundred lines of code), for data manipulation you still have to use shell or Perl. The internet, telecommunications, bioinformatics etc industries and entire generations of backend were built entirely in Perl. And by many definitions is still the case.