![]() As stated in our Future of Perl ActiveState blog, ActiveState is committed to creating an ActivePerl 7 Community Edition (CE) distribution, incorporating the base language and many of the most popular community packages. The first release candidate should be available by the end of 2020, with a user release happening sometime in the first half of 2021. In summary: Perl 7 will be Perl 5.32 with maximum modern practices and minimal historical baggage. But since Perl 7 is “mostly Perl 5.32” things that have been regularly updated should just work. Maintainers will be notified if their modules are breaking, and given a chance to fix them. This means that the legacy defaults from Perl 4 and 5 that no longer make sense in our more modern computing environment are likely to be removed.Īs with every release of Perl, Perl 7 will be tested against modules from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) to ensure compatibility. More than laying the groundwork for the future, Perl 7 is meant to make a break with the past by easing Perl out of its longstanding commitment to backward compatibility. ![]() This is convenient, but not revolutionary, so why announce this as the next major version of Perl? On JPerl 7 was announced at The Perl Conference as “Perl 5.32 with modern defaults.” In other words, all the modern conveniences you now manually enable will be enabled by default. As with anything under development, features and dates may change. ![]() Disclaimer: This blog post summarizes much of the publicly available information we know about Perl 7 to date. ![]()
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