This week in PSC (214) | 2026-02-02
With Leon at FOSDEM it was only Paul and Aristotle this week, but the discussion ranged widely.
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
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
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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
ANNOUNCE: Perl.Wiki V 1.38 & Mojolicious.Wiki V 1.12
Download from the usual place, my Wiki Haven.
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:
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This week in PSC (211) | 2026-01-12
Just Paul and Aristotle this week.
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. This would be useful in its own right, as well as an enabler for PPC0034 “Ref-aliased parameters in subroutine signatures”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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
This week in PSC (210) | 2026-01-05
After skipping a week again due to circumstances, all three of us attended this shorter meeting, which Paul had to leave early.
We went over a number of pending administrative requests, including possible additions to the core team and the process to follow for this.
We reviewed issue #24013 about the fallout of fatalizing calls to undefined import/unimport methods with arguments. We decided that this deprecation be rescinded and the PR be reverted. This mistake should only warn, with a category to make it easily usably fatalizable (so that whoever wants the error can opt into it).
Cosmoshop supports the German Perl Workshop 2026
We are happy that Cosmoshop supports the German Perl Workshop again in 2026!
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