The Pearl Renaissance
summary
Claim: Perl is resurging because ecosystem tools solve old pain points. Evidence: CPAN reports ~26,000 distributions with rising yearly uploads and about 50% updates and 50% new. Concrete tools and outcomes: cpanm installs without root and quiets dependency chaos, perlbrew exec tests suites across many Perl versions, Dist::Zilla automates packaging and releases, Moose/Moo plus method signatures and type coercions simplify objects and APIs. Regexes get named captures and Regexp::Debugger shows visual heatmaps. Dancer and Plack power quick web apps; live demos and real modules (habitRPG, Triller) work.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Pearl Renaissance intro
- 1:14Modern Pearl ecosystem
- 4:48Installing modules with cpanm
- 7:59Managing Perl versions
- 10:07Automating with Dist::Zilla
- 13:15Modern object-oriented Pearl with Moose
- 19:15Method signatures
- 24:54Perl 5.10/5.14 features
- 28:25Regex debugging
- 32:16Web frameworks
- 36:07Plack middleware
- 39:37Code review with Perl::Critic
- 42:51Q&A
