Compared to 98? - DBIx::Class instead of DBI is a huge change; even DBI was reasonably new back then, with people still using MySQL.pm - Moose and Moo over ev

Compared to 98? - DBIx::Class instead of DBI is a huge change; even DBI was reasonably new back then, with people still using MySQL.pm - Moose and Moo over everything being hand-roled. I remember in 98 trying to convince people to use OO at all for anything. - The testing ecosystem is very different / much improved, and people actually write them? - People are really using strict, "use warnings" is a thing instead of -w - Catalyst/Mojolicious/Dancer on Plack instead of mod_perl being cutting edge; even then, most stuff in '98 was CGI, with CGI.pm being luxury as opposed to people rolling parameter parsing by hand - There were still many many many CPAN deniers in '98 - UTF8 and Unicode is actually a thing now, rather than an after-thought etc