I am stepping down from Perl Steering Council and Core
Perl has had a really rough time. When I was in my Bioinformatics Grad program, back in 2016 I briefly considered learning Perl b&#x2F;c there was&#x2F;is still a lot of tooling written in Perl. I was able to get by and at this point I will probably never learn it for my job. I&#x27;m not poopooing the language. I think language design is hard, and it sucks that once a language reaches 1.0 it&#x27;s shackled by decisions that will come to haunt it decades later.<p>It really sucks that popular open source projects have to face so much abuse on a daily basis. Sometimes I wonder if this is a product of the internet or programmers in general. I&#x27;ve had plenty of bad experience on stack overflow, and various other programming forums even just asking questions, so I can only imagine what it&#x27;s like being a maintainer of something people actually use.<p>If I ever create something popular that people use, I&#x27;d probably move it to gnu savannah, or use svn or mercurial, to make it harder to contribute and weed out the haters. But I&#x27;ve never made anything useful enough to warrant that.