I like Perl, but it's had a bit of an identity crisis since Perl 6. I believe late last year, they renamed it to Raku as a 'solution' to this identity crisis. I still think Perl can get the job done in a lot of different circumstances and, despite the fact that it's not really used as widely for web tooling as it was in the late '90s, it's still an invaluable scripting tool for sysadmins still willing to dip their toes in and learn it. As others have noted, the 'shiny new toy' effect has made Perl less attractive, but I think Perl has unfairly gotten a bad rap, especially in regards to opinions of how 'ugly' the language is - I tend to think it's more elegant than ugly. And of course, any programming language can be ugly - all depends on how clever the programmer in question wants to be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raku_(programming_language)