That&#x27;s a nice way of looking at the brain drain in the Perl community over the last decade. And, you&#x27;re probably right. If we think in terms of general health of the free and open programming world, it has been remarkably improved by some of the folks who&#x27;ve migrated through different languages over the years. To the point where we have not one, not two, not a dozen, really nice languages with excellent communities, but several dozens of them (and at least two dozen that are large enough and effective enough to build pretty much anything with them). We have an embarrassment of riches, frankly.<p>There was a time when going into a large project, you could choose between Java, C&#x2F;C++, or Perl. There were outliers (even some with significant footholds in some industries, like TCL), but those were the options I saw in front of me at every junction. Today, we can choose to work in so many languages, and get good results, find good community, find good library and tooling and cross-platform support, and enjoy all the stuff we found so nice about Perl way back when.