Perl 🐪 Weekly #766 - Perl: Past, Present and Future

Originally published at Perl Weekly 766 Hi there, This week's Perl landscape firmly establishes that while the history of Perl is rich and exciting, it is also a place for experimentation and innovation in the future. There have been handful of releases of Perl v5.43.9 which came up with plenty of changes and major one for me was the enhanced /xx pattern modifier. In between there was another very important patch was released, Perl v5.42.2-RC1, and Perl v5.40.4 addressing the vulnerability in Compress::Raw::Zlib. Don't dare call Perl is dead. Ever worked with XS modules? Well we have three related XS modules that made it looks so simple and easy. The benefit of XS helps creating efficient and high speed unique identifier creation using Horus, Apophis, and Sekhmet. Bonus, you get to see how they can be used together. Robert seems to be on the roll with his another gem, Eshu, a code formatter written entirely in C and exposed to Perl through XS. Not everything have to be, XS. Dave showed