Dunno ... we also have a COBOL-to-JavaScript compiler, too.

But, frankly, I would toss them both into the same “experimental” bucket ... and then push the handle mounted conveniently nearby.

I think that we, as an industry, have “lately gone a little nuts” for the notion that:   “the only plausible way to do anything is to use ‘JavaScript and HTML(5),’ more-or-less exactly as we did in the early uh-oh’s.”   And then, to try mightily to press every square-peg we come across into that one hole.   Even though technicians prove again and again what can be done, it just doesn’t take too long, IMHO, for such things to completely lose their relevance.   No tool has to do everything.   No one way of doing anything fits everywhere.

The Perl language, like Javascript, reflects its upbringing and its heritage ... and these factors also determine what it’s really good at – and, what it isn’t.   There will always be two sides ... client, and server.   There are tools steeped in one of those two, others in the other, none in both.