alt Hacker NewsThe lede says Perl died because it was "reactionary" and "culturally conservative", but the content says Perl died because it had bad culture, the culture of angry, socially corrosive anonymous internet commenters.
If Perl had had a good culture, then conserving it would have been good!
A good culture, as time goes, is not reactionary and conservative, if only because it opens itself to the contribution of the younger generations.