WHAT CHALLENGES ARE FACING PERL?

The Managed Decline of Perl

"If the Perl community cannot attract beginner users like Python successfully has, it runs the risk of ... dwindling away to a standstill; vast repositories of hieroglyphic code looming ... like the halls of the Mines of Moria"

Dice Insights, August 2018

"Still today the Perl community hasn't defined a clear future, and as a consequence, it is slowly fading away."

Programmer News, April 2018