Ran across this video on YT. I started using what was then e-smith Server and Gateway in 1999-2000, when Perl was a much bigger thing that it is today; some interesting thoughts on why that might be:
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a teacher once told me:
when you put a dozen of monkeys at a typewriter, after a dozen of years, they’ll coincidently have typed a line of Shakespeare.
The rest will be Perl.
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What I love about Perl is that the code I wrote 10 years ago or more is still running strong. In contrast, with JavaScript, it feels like every 2, 3, or 4 years we throw everything away and start from scratch.
One of the best moments of my life was meeting Larry at FOSDEM in 2015 and having the chance to thank him in person.
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It’s true that sometimes the code wasn’t easy to read, and if I had to go back to it now, after almost three years away from Perl, I’d probably struggle to dive back in. But Perl lets you create your own style when writing code, whereas Python forces you to be strict.
This is why i really hate JavaScript, and its cousins, NodeJS etc.
Especially Depencies, We have some enteprise grade systems, we built on C#, we can go as much as a year never touching the codebase, and would still come back to a proper working system, without brekages.
Try that with Javascript, NodeJS or otherwise, and you will Suffer.
I cannot say I hate javascript because you can do cool things in the user interface and I love it, so I have to work with JS and node 
Each language comes with its weakness and robustness and I must live with 
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We don’t have a better alternative for js on the browser. Just pure Javascript is OK.
Been playing around with blazor recently as well…, just we can never avoid javascript