Yet, Cornwall says he does not think Perl is making a comeback.

“I’ve run into zero developers who are choosing it over alternatives like Python for new development,” he tells The New Stack.

No doubt, if you only hang about in Python circles that might well be your experience. OTOH, a more broad set of connections would have allowed him to run into plenty of developers who are. Hello!

Also worth noting that this single anecdotal data point comes from "Andrew Cornwall, an analyst at Forrester Research" and therefore not a developer, programmer, scripter, coder or anything remotely connected with, you know, creating software.