At $work, we’ve been in the process of phasing out perl for a couple of years now, mostly in favor of go. There is still perl maintenance type work to do, and occasionally new perl code is written if it doesn’t yet seem prudent to move any useful dependencies needed over to go, but I’m finding myself missing working in perl as much as I used to, and I don’t currently have any side projects.

I have noticed a recent bit of activity around Padre. I’ve always been more of a back-end developer, so nearly everything there will be way out of my comfort zone, which seems like a good reason to see if I can dive in and learn anything in the process.

What perl things are you working on? I think this should be open to anything, even if its just a small toy, or things from $work you are allows to share, or anything else perl related.