It's easy to see the world skewed by blog posts. There's growing use of Perl[1] outside of the 'SF startup scene' echo chamber, huge quantity of new projects in Oracle APEX, power plant simulations in Tcl[2] and the gardens full of thousand flowers blooming.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df5Q4iPBNKM

[2] http://www.eurotcl.tcl3d.org/program.html#Zaumseil