I'm happily using MooseX::Declare for when I want better OO - and given Moose is a full metaprotocol with appropriate, extensible objects for everything (ruby h

I'm happily using MooseX::Declare for when I want better OO - and given Moose is a full metaprotocol with appropriate, extensible objects for everything (ruby has nothing like attributes, let alone extensible meta-attributes, sadly) it's a hugely powerful tool. Piers Cawley happily gave up on ruby and came back to perl5 as a result of it - you should give it a play before looking at a more drastic switch.