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Dean celebrates Perl’s improved position in the TIOBE Index during 2025 and highlights the ongoing momentum in the Perl community, from steady releases to vibrant events and tooling support. While acknowledging healthy skepticism about popularity metrics,…
Makoto Nozaki takes a clear, numbers‑driven look at The Perl and Raku Foundation’s 2024 financials, showing a significant increase in revenue but expenses that far exceeded income and halved its assets. His breakdown highlights both positive trends in don…
Toby Inkster introduces performance‑boosting extensions to Moose with MooseX::XSAccessor and the new MooseX::XSConstructor, showing significant speedups in object creation and method access. His benchmarks suggest up to ~76 % faster performance using XS‑b…
19 Jan
In his year‑in‑review post, Corion reflects on a productive 2025 by highlighting several useful Perl modules he published, including Text::HTML::Turndown for converting HTML to Markdown and Date::Find for extracting dates from filenames. He also shares a …
Dave Cross has published an archive of slides from his long‑running technical training courses on Perl and other developer topics, going back many years and available for free download. These slide decks offer a valuable resource for anyone wanting concis…
19 Jan
The blog announces the beta release of Thunderhorse, a new Perl web framework drawing on lessons from Kelp and built natively on PAGI, with real‑time features like WebSocket and SSE support and a focus on extensibility and high code quality.
Max Maischein announces that CosmoShop, one of the world’s largest pure‑Perl shop systems, is once again sponsoring the German Perl Workshop in 2026, strengthening community support for this key Perl/Raku conference. This continued backing highlights the …
We mostly discussed the experimental refaliasing and declared_refs features to see if we can find a path towards declaring at least the latter non-experimental.
19 Jan
Hi there,
Perl continues to show remarkable momentum in early 2026, with Dean highlighting the language's improved position in the TIOBE Index, signaling renewed attention and ongoing relevance. This renewed vis
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12 Jan
This post delivers clean, pragmatic, and idiomatic solutions to both tasks in The Weekly Challenge #355. It emphasizes using the right tool for the job, clarity, and efficiency over algorithmic novelty.
12 Jan
This is a thoughtful, well-structured solution to both Weekly Challenge tasks, with a clear emphasis on explicit logic and state-based reasoning rather than relying on library tricks. Roger demonstrates good cross-language fluency and a solid grasp of alg…
12 Jan
This submission is technically strong, correct, and deliberately written for clarity and maintainability rather than brevity. It reflects an experienced Perl programmer who values explicit logic, readable structure, and thorough documentation.
12 Jan
This submission demonstrates strong problem understanding, solid algorithmic choices, and pragmatic Perl coding. The solutions are intentionally explicit, readable, and correct, favoring clarity and single-pass logic over clever one-liners. Both tasks are…
This post is a strong, well-executed multi-language technical write-up that emphasizes algorithmic reasoning, clarity of transformation, and comparative programming paradigms over minimalism or raw performance.
12 Jan
This is technically excellent, showing a high level of Perl proficiency, algorithmic awareness, and performance consciousness. Both tasks are solved correctly, with multiple alternative implementations explored and benchmarked, demonstrating a thoughtful …
12 Jan
The solutions for Weekly Challenge #355 are technically strong, correct, and efficient. Task 2 (Mountain Array) leverages PDL for vectorized comparisons, producing a concise, single-pass check for mountain arrays while correctly handling edge cases such a…
This is a well‑engineered, comprehensive, and professionally presented technical write‑up that goes beyond minimal solutions to showcase how to solve the Weekly Challenge across ecosystems. It favors clarity and breadth over micro‑optimizations, making it…
12 Jan
Efficient and idiomatic Perl for the thousand separator using a classic unpack pattern.️ A formally defined mountain array solution with vectorised and language-diverse implementations.
Technically solid, readable, and well-structured. The solutions are both correct and practical, illustrating good problem decomposition and Perl/Raku coding style.
12 Jan
The post demonstrates an idiomatic and compact use of Raku for typical programming challenges. It balances expressive language features with clarity, though readers unfamiliar with hyperoperators and the pipeline style might need supplemental explanation.
Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Thousand Separator" and "Mountain Array" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy.
12 Jan
Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Kolakoski Sequence" and "Who Wins". If you are new to the weekly challenge then why not join us and have fun every week. For more information, please read the FAQ.
The ElasticSearch upgrade on MetaCPAN impaceted a number of other web site, but it seems things are working again.
12 Jan
Allowing your users to put regexes in a configuration file. Is it a good idea? How to do it?
Why do you need Perl for this? - asks the first commenter.
12 Jan
12 Jan
See also the discussion.
This video was recorded during the most recent Perl code reading and open source contribution event. For links check out the OSDC Perl page and join us at our next event!
12 Jan
It's a library that brings the agentic capabilities of Claude Code into your Perl applications.
12 Jan
Which of the 7 OOP frameworks of Perl is the fastest?
12 Jan
Get it, as usual, from his Wiki Haven.
12 Jan
New York Perlmongers (NY.PM) has a new mailing-list organized as a Google Group. Sign up here. (Note: we are not doing unrequested transfers from our previous mailing list.) NY.PM social event: Thursday, January 15, 6:00 pm EST at Barcade, 148 West 24 St,…
12 Jan
Hi there!
Dave Cross has an article showing position of Perl on the TIOBE index. As I don't see any up-tick in new subscribers to the Perl Weekly nor do I see any increase in the MetaCPAN activity I keep track of, I doubt that the changes in the
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