There was a project to rewrite common binaries in Perl a few years back, the "perl power tools project". https://metacpan.org/pod/PerlPowerTools https://metacp

There was a project to rewrite common binaries in Perl a few years back, the "perl power tools project". https://metacpan.org/pod/PerlPowerTools https://metacpan.org/pod/PerlPowerTools I'd rather see that than a language such as Rust, D, or Go.