Ironically making it more modern may make things like shell scripting easier.
Let's say that Perl gets a real type system, and reflection capabilities.
Then I can see something like this come to exist:
use v7;
use GetOpt::MAIN;
sub MAIN ( str $name, int $count ) {
say $name for 1..$count
}
Personally, I’d like them to focus on shell scripting and tool making. (But that’s what I use Perl for, so of course I’d say that)