Dancer2 + DBIx::Class::Async + HTMX
Tech trio embrace in harmony: Dancer2, DBIx::Class::Async and HTMX.
For more information, please follow this link: https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/dancer2-dbic-async-htmx
A new sponsorship model
Last year, I wrote that the total cost of a Perl Toolchain Summit is in the order of 50,000€. It's all covered by sponsors and attendees (and the leftovers from the previous years).
We're now preparing the Perl Toolchain Summit 2026, which will be held from Thursday, April 23rd until Sunday, April 26th, in Vienna, Austria.
Today, I'll briefly explain why we need sponsors for the event, and propose a new way to think about sponsorship to our corporate sponsors.
This week in PSC (213) | 2026-01-26
All three of us discussed:
- We agree with the general idea of an improved PRNG, so we encourage Scott to continue working on the PR to get it into a polished state ready for merge
- Haarg’s “missing import” PR now looks good; Paul has LGTM’ed it
- TLS in core still remains a goal for the next release cycle.
Crypt::OpenSSL3might now be in a complete enough state to support a minimal viable product “https” client to be built on top of it, that could be used by an in-core CPAN client
Call for proofreaders : blogging on beautiful Perl features
Hi fellow Perlists,
Now that I am retired, I have a bit more time for personal projects. One project dear to my heart would be to demonstrate strong features of Perl for programmers from other backgrounds. So I'm planning a https://dev.to/ series on "beautiful Perl features", comparing various aspects of Perl with similar features in Java, Python or Javascript.
There are many points to discuss, ranging from small details like flexibility of quote delimiters or the mere simplicity of allowing a final comma in a list, to much more fundamental features like lexical scoping and dynamic scoping.
Since I'm not a native english speaker, and since my knowledge of Java and Python is mostly theoretical, I would appreciate help if some of you would volunteer for spending some time in proofreading the projected posts. Just send an email to my CPAN account if you feel like participating.
Thanks in advance :-), Laurent Dami
Evolution of DBIx::Class::Async
How do you make the world’s best Perl ORM non-blocking without rewriting your entire schema? Find out the answer in this post: https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/dbix-class-async-evolution
Ready, Set, Compile... you slow Camel
"Perl is slow."
I've heard this for years, well since I started. You probably have too. And honestly? For a long time, I didn't have a great rebuttal. Sure, Perl's fast enough for most things, it's well known for text processing, glueing code and quick scripts. But when it came to object heavy code, the critics have a point.
Otobo supports the German Perl Workshop
We are happy to announce that Otobo also is part of our event!
Die Rother OSS GmbH ist Source Code Owner und Maintainer der Service Management-Plattform OTOBO.
Gemeinsam mit der Community entwickeln wir OTOBO kontinuierlich weiter und sorgen dafür, dass das Tool zu 100 % Open Source bleibt.
Unsere Kunden unterstützen wir mit partnerschaftlicher Beratung, Training, Entwicklung, Support und Managed Services.
https://otobo.io/de/unternehmen/karriere/
ANNOUNCE: Perl.Wiki V 1.38 & Mojolicious.Wiki V 1.12
Download from the usual place, my Wiki Haven.
SBOM::CycloneDX 1.07 is released
I've released a new version of SBOM::CycloneDX with support for the OWASP CycloneDX 1.7 specification (ECMA-424).
This release includes the new elements introduced in 1.7, with a focus on:
- Enhancements to Cryptography Bill of Materials (CBOM)
- Citations: references and sources for evidence/metadata
- Intellectual Property Transparency: references to associated patents (number, jurisdiction, link, assignee) for compliance / due diligence needs
New experimental "SBOM::CycloneDX::Lite" interface: A lightweight module designed to generate BOMs with a simpler API, using the most common CycloneDX properties.
Examples included in the distribution (use them as a starting point to build your own applications/tools that generate BOM files):
- "x509-to-cbom" : generates a CBOM from an X.509 certificate
- "rpm-to-sbom" : generates a SBOM from installed RPM packages (on RHEL-based)
The goal of this module is to help the Perl community generate BOM files more easily, improving security and compliance across the ecosystem and making the software supply chain more transparent.
SBOM::CycloneDX is available on CPAN / MetaCPAN: https://metacpan.org/pod/SBOM::CycloneDX
Related projects: - App::CPAN::SBOM - https://metacpan.org/dist/App-CPAN-SBOM - Modules::CoreList::SBOM - https://github.com/giterlizzi/perl-Module-CoreList-SBOM
This week in PSC (212) | 2026-01-19
All of us were present.
- We discussed the recent p5p thread about the proposed
class :abstractattribute. Paul wants to write that because it’s a simple addition on current code and avoids design complications about roles. Aristotle doesn’t wish to introduce a new special-purpose feature now that will become redundant when a more general one is available later and wondered whether it can be introduced as roles that currently only support a small subset of features. No call has been made. - The
classdiscussions also extended to looking at themetamodule and API, and the common idea between the two that it would be useful to get more people to use them and discuss future ideas. We would like people to step forward here. - We have PR #24059 to implement the retraction of the deprecation of being able to call undefined import methods (and the reinstatement of a default-enabled warning for that case), thanks to haarg. We are keen to get it merged so we will provide feedback soon.
- The maint-votes process came up. We pondered whether we can conceive of something less obscure and will post to the list about this.
vitroconnect sponsors the German Perl Workshop
We are proud to have the support of vitroconnect.
vitroconnect implementiert Schnittstellen und Geschäftsprozesse für eine Reihe von marktführenden Unternehmen über die eigene Brokerage Plattform. Darüber hinaus können auch frei konfigurierbare White Label Bündelprodukte geliefert werden. Seit 2011 ist vitroconnect mit seinen Kund:innen aus der Telekommunikation gewachsen: Auf der vitroconnect Plattform werden aktuell über 100 Partner verwaltet. vitroconnect ist die größte netzunabhängige Brokerage-Plattform für TK-Breitbandanschlüsse in Deutschland.
How can we make this Moose faster?
(I make no apologies for the ChatGPT images in my recent blog posts, by the way. No artists are missing out on being paid: I wasn’t going to hire an artist to illustrate these blog posts which will be read by like three people.)
A while back, I wrote MooseX::XSAccessor which you can add to Moose classes to inspect your attributes and try to replace the accessors with faster XS-based ones. Now I’ve done the same for constructors (new) and destructors (DESTROY) with MooseX::XSConstructor.
There are probably still bugs, but initial benchmarks look promising:
Understanding TPRF's Finance, 2026 Edition
An Analysis of The Perl and Raku Foundation's 2024 Finances
In October 2024, I published an article analyzing the financial situation of The Perl and Raku Foundation (TPRF). Since then, I have left the board, and my life is now largely unrelated to Perl. I no longer have insight into TPRF's internal decision-making but I got a few suggestions to continue, so this article again analyzes TPRF's finances using publicly available data for the 2024 calendar year. There is an unavoidable delay between when nonprofit tax returns are filed and when they become public.
Executive Summary
- Assets at end of 2023: $200,215
- Revenue in 2024: $86,845
- Expenses in 2024: $188,037
- Assets at end of 2024: $101,525
Revenue: A Positive Turn
Taking the Win - Perl in the TIOBE Index
There has been much to say about Perl improving in TIOBE during 2025 and ending in the top 10 which is roughly where things were around 2016.
Many things are working well in the Perl community and we should expect to be seeing them paying off.
For example:Retrospective on the Perl Development Release 5.43.7
(cross-posted from my blog)
Last Monday I did the Perl Developer Release of Perl 5.43.7. As usual, I worked from the Release Managers Guide . Everything worked well, even if everything was cutting it a bit close. My video setup on the desktop was not suited for streaming anymore, so I had to do a stream consisting only of the console window and me talking over it, and no floating head of me available.
What worked well
The Twitch chat was the most active that I witnessed when streaming a Perl release. We chatted about organizing Perl conferences and also the Perl release process. One realization for me was that the RMG process is mostly there to exercise the Perl build machinery and testing that the generated tarball does not have deficiencies. This means that testing that Perl can build through Configure is important, but testing different Perl configurations like ithreads or userelocatableinc is not that important.
Marlin Racing
When I first introduced Marlin, it seemed the only OO framework which could beat its constructor in speed was the one generated by the new Perl core class keyword. Which seems fair, as that’s implemented in C and is tightly integrated with the Perl interpreter. However, I’m pleased to say that Marlin’s constructors are now faster.
(Though also I forgot to include Mouse in previous benchmarks, so I’ve rectified that now.)
Rate Plain Tiny Moo Moose Core Marlin Mouse Plain 1357/s -- -1% -48% -55% -73% -77% -78% Tiny 1374/s 1% -- -48% -54% -72% -77% -78% Moo 2617/s 93% 91% -- -13% -47% -56% -58% Moose 3001/s 121% 118% 15% -- -39% -50% -52% Core 4943/s 264% 260% 89% 65% -- -17% -21% Marlin 5976/s 340% 335% 128% 99% 21% -- -4% Mouse 6237/s 359% 354% 138% 108% 26% 4% --
perlmodules.net is down for 1-2 weeks
Because metacpan.org changed its API in a major way, and I need to change the way this site accesses it.
Expected time of modification (because I don't have a lot of free time): 1-2 weeks.
Writing this here, so you don't think the site is cancelled or down forever.
ANNOUNCE: Perl.Wiki V 1.37
Get it, as usual, from my Wiki Haven.
I have not yet generated a new JSTree version but I have started cleaning up the code
in CPAN::MetaCurator...
What I released in 2025
Taking a break from promotional posts about the German Perl Workshop, I also posted on
my personal blog about what I released in 2025.
I find such retrospectives always interesting, finding out which modules had staying power,
which modules needed no changes during the year, and which modules still are
under development.
DBIx::Class::Async - UPDATE
DBIx::Class::Async module just leveled up. Thanks to sharp-eyed users who spotted what I missed — sometimes the best features come from the community, not the creator. Please follow the link for more information: https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/dbix-class-async-update
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