Never used Perl. Would love to learn it. Just went through the overview. Looks like a high-level scripting language which inherits a lot from C.

After all the research, I am still highly inclined towards Golang. Since you said "Perl or Go", you seem to have used Golang. How does Perl compare with it?

Perl has decades worth of high quality libraries to do heavy lifting. https://metacpan.org You can get away with easy scripting for creating significant programs.

UNIX commandline and Perl is a match made in heaven.

Using Golang will demand significantly more effort when doing more complex stuff but will give you concurrency, easier deploys/multi-platform support and better performance if doing CPU intensive stuff.

I use Go for what I previously maybe used C for.

Thanks to the quick compile time and good tooling Go almost feels like a scripting language when developing but especially for UNIXy stuff it can't replace Perl for me.

For learning I would highly recommend the following books:

  Beginning Perl by Ovid.
  Modern Perl by chromatic.

There are a lot of other good Perl books but some of them are getting old and it is better to already know a bit before reading so one can separate good from dated etc.

Nice. Thanks.