CPAN

CPAN uploads rose 50% year-over-year in the first eight months of 2026, with monthly uploads increasing from 5,676 in Jan-Aug 2025 to 9,430 in Jan-Aug 2026, according to an analysis by Olaf Alders usi…

A developer built PDF::Make, a Perl toolkit for generating, extracting, and modifying PDF files. The toolkit provides low-level PDF object manipulation and a high-level builder API, and supports post-…

Generative AI coding assistants are making programming language popularity less relevant, as tools like Claude Code can work with older languages like Perl if sufficient documentation exists. The auth…