Most of the modern perl ecosystem is libraries built by substantial teams - it's a lot different now than a decade or so ago. The Modern Perl dialect is basica

Most of the modern perl ecosystem is libraries built by substantial teams - it's a lot different now than a decade or so ago. The Modern Perl dialect is basically what came out of the new wave of CPAN (Enlightened Perl) movement which is all about using perl's flexibility in a way that scales to larger teams. Sadly, every attempt to explain this to people not already writing it results in a deluge of 'write-only' jokes and nobody bothering to actually look at the code, so while the technical capacity is there, the pop culture nature of programming language choice means people generally never realise.