Yes, Perl is still a good language to use, especially if "modern" practices are used. That means using a recent version of Perl (at the moment I'd say that's at least 5.18), reading the perldeltas, noting that some of the common practices used in old Perls have been updated (e.g. lexical filehandles), using the right modules where appropriate (see e.g. Task::Kensho), and especially using some of the modern frameworks such as Moose/Moo, DBIx::Class, Plack, etc. (where appropriate).

The three major web frameworks out there at the moment are Dancer, Catalyst, and Mojolicious. Personally I like Mojolicious, but have heard plenty of good things about the others as well.

Perhaps you could also have a look at Galileo - "A simple modern CMS built on Mojolicious".

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