This is terribly sad to hear. Perl used to be so ubiquitous and it is sad to see that it is rapidly fading away. I know of no one in my friend circle who has EVER used Perl.
Perl has been my go-to language for years now. Just yesterday I needed to write a little tool to stream some scraped metrics into a ClickHouse database. I was shocked to see that there aren't first-class Perl libraries for ClickHouse, and those on CPAN are seemingly fairly old/unmaintained. That's a real bummer.
I could always go with the MySQL interface, but I'd prefer to stay native if possible.
