So says the innertubes.
I once wandered into the Perl forum at WmW just to lurk. I heel and toed it out of there as fast as I could. hhh I didn't understand one tiny bit of what they were saying. I did like Perl scripts tho.
I started with FORTRAN and Pascal and PDP11 assembly language, then took a long hiatus from programming until I got into PHP and a bit of Scheme. The effect is that I just never used PERL (or Java for that matter).
I can read and sometimes modify Perl. I like it because it IS readable. I once had LM convert a large, working C+ script to Perl just because I liked being able to see the script code and could maintain it myself.
Javascript is also readable, sorta, and I can sometimes work with it. But js is crazy.
>But js is crazy.
It's booming right now though; with node.js it is becoming the one language that seems to be able to do it all.
Perl was so great around the turn of the century, I never got into perl 6 though. It is too different form 5 and I don't really see any advantage of it over other languages.
>>But js is crazy.
>It's booming right now though ...node
Yeah, and the userscript community. I stay eyeball-deep in stackoverflow & github when I'm trying to cobble together a browser script.
>>But js is crazy.
Enclosures, anonymous functions, etc can make it rather hard to read if, like me, you're not adept. But yes, it is booming. I know serious, strong programmers who now code full-time in some flavor of JS - node.js, React, Angular and plain old JS - for pretty much all their work