perl should not fail me on resolve icon path

You mean CPAN. Perl can do anything you want, if you write out the full program. You want someone else to solve the problem and post a complete module for you, for all tasks you can think of? There are many many things that Perl does not have a CPAN module for, and yes, Python has more modules to solve the latest problems because Python has more people.

We at perlmonks use perl because we like the language, not because it has the most problems already solved in a module.