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>>speckx+(OP)
I'll give you my two cents - I took a job in Perl in 2017 and set about learning it and found its community to be the most snobbish and unfriendly of any programming subcommunity I had ever encountered.

The language had many strange quirks and every question I posted about its particularities was greeted with responses along the lines of "Are you even trying? How do you not get it? Did you even read the docs?"

Well, yes, I did, and I still didn't understand, because I found them unclear.

I left the job and dropped the language and moved on to greener pastures without much regret. And it seemed like many, many people I spoke to had similar experiences with it.

>>window+6P1
The last time I dealt with the Perl community, I posted a question asking for an update on some announced changes. In a community of adults, it was a straightforward question with a straightforward answer, but that's not what you get with Perl.