I want to learn perl but it seems really massive and lots of things it does are just replacements for standard unix tools.
I can't really justify it when I haven't had any problems with the approach of posix shell/awk/python scripting and when it becomes too complex/slow I do a C program.
The most attractive for me to learn perl is the versatility + stability that it has, unlike languages like python that break programs constantly for the sake of change and being more 'pythonic'.
I have also read some things about raku (perl 6) and while it has some interesting things like grammar parsing, it seems to be unstable and not commonly installed like perl5.
If anyone here has used perl extensively, I would like for them to share their expierience and if they recommend it