My long hope is that some day, someone starts to replace the perl-based Debian infrastructure with Rust (or really, anything). I did a decent bit of mod_perl,

My long hope is that some day, someone starts to replace the perl-based Debian infrastructure with Rust (or really, anything). I did a decent bit of mod_perl, love & respect perl, but here in 2025, it's pretty terrifying to me that Debian's main dependency is a pretty sizable perl runtime. That there seems to be very little that will budge this. The whole ecosystem is built atop a language that very few people have interest in, that has much less interest & activity than other modern alternatives. It's fine if we start switching the user env over to more popular Rust based utilities. But what I really want is for the OS itself to modernize, to start getting away from it's ancient seemingly-unshakeable legacy. Nothing against Perl, but I'd love to see this family of OSes move beyond being Perl only.