Perl 🐪 Weekly #774 - Perl is too HOT

Originally published at Perl Weekly 774

Hi there,

I know you all are patiently waiting for the release of Perl v5.44. Recently I joined the mailing list of perl5-porters. You get all the latest update straight in your inbox. This is where I found out, the v5.44 would be out end of next month if everything goes as per the plan. I get excited during this time of the year to see what is new added to the core class feature. I am still waiting for the support of creating roles. I am also aware there are other high priority features in the list. No pressure to Paul Evans and his team, we are happy to see the progress in the language under your guidance.

Well you don't have to wait for the big release to get your hand dirty. For me, I am busy exploring things like Big O Notation, JSON Web Token (JWT), OAuth2, gRPC. There are plenty in the pipelines too.

If you are looking for something new then you should check this out, Aspire in Perl. While going through the post, I came across another gem, OpenTelemetry SDK for Perl, thanks to JJ Atria. It's going in my TODO list. One day, I will take a closer look.

Web development in Perl has seen it all since the CGI Era (1990s). First came PSGI/Plack, the middleware revolution, followed by the rise of frameworks like Catalyst, Dancer2 and Mojolicious. Dave Cross has written a very detailed post about The Long Road From CGI To Containers.

Plenty of posts this week to keep you busy all day, enjoy.

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