I find Python much easier to read and write, whereas I find it hard to write Perl as anything but an unstructured blob. Its main advantage for me is that interpreter startup time is significantly faster than Python, Ruby, Node, and most Scheme implementations. So it's useful if I ever need to call an external program for some text processing inside a shell script. Otherwise I strongly prefer the maintainability of Python.

I once went looking for something like Ansible that was implemented in Perl. Does such a thing exist? I think declarative system orchestration got popular well after perl's popularity declined. In any case, I did not find anything.

There is CFengine which can have modules for it written in Perl, but itself is not written in Perl.

Rex: https://metacpan.org/pod/Rex never used it but

Thanks!

Now with LLMs to reduce feature discovery pain there is less of an excuse!

Edit: this applies to any language not just Perl. I use it to learn Python things I would otherwise miss.