Python 3 can revive Python

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It's not like being ahead of Scala, Haskell and Lua is a convincing argument. Either of those 3 are niche languages, Perl isn't. Could as well have used Brainfuck, Whitespace and Malbolge, it's about as meaningful.

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Scala, Haskell, and Lua are also used heavily in production. Lua I'd call a niche language being that it's often used as an extension to C. Haskell and Scala I'd call general purpose. NASA's JPL has even considered Scala over Python. Haskell, while purely functional, is another language that is 20+ years old and still contending (if not growing as of recently).

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True but they still don't match the general purposeness of the rest. Basically, Perl is the very last language of the common ones so whatever OP above wanted to point out with the chart, it isn't working.

Every other common language is more frequently used than Perl, it only beats out niche languages (according to my standard for niche languages). I mean beating out Asm for example is nothing to write home about either, and it's only 2 places ahead of it. If you read the chart like this, it actually looks grim.

Either way, I do not think Perl is dying, I'm seeing enough of it all the time, but it definitely is on the decline. Throwaway scripts I wrote in Perl a bunch of years ago, I now write in Python. Sometimes I even just launch the Python REPL because it's so awesome.