I agree there is a lot of dross on CPAN. I've also lived the frustration of seeing two kinds of exception handler TryCatch vs Try::Tiny in the same subdir of a codebase. The issue is really that a lot of basic modern functionality requires CPAN, and the core of Perl 5 is small and mostly not super helpful. Something akin to Moose in core as the new standard way to do OO would have been a good plan 10 years ago.
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I agree there is a lot of dross on CPAN. I've also lived the frustration of seeing two kinds of exception handler TryCatch vs Try::Tiny in the same subdir of a codebase. The issue is really that a lot of basic modern functionality requires CPAN, and the core of Perl 5 is small and mostly not super helpful. Something akin to Moose in core as the new standard way to do OO would have been a good plan 10 years ago.