> for a scripting language there's nothing else that ticks the same boxes

I think Python ticks almost all the same boxes (and is much better designed in my opinion).

By far not. It's only more readable, but much more verbose, overarchitectured, slower and esp. unstable. Old perl scripts still work fine, old python scripts are not only many, many files, but also break every other year.

And you cannot just install a python module as you install a perl module. You need venv everything because it's soo fragile.

But this 10k sponsoring is not really worth mentioning. It's just like Platinum sponsorship for one of their conferences.