I don't know about Perls core, but CPAN is a hotbed of new development and has been for years. Just look at the new module stream on twitter: https://twitter.c

I don't know about Perls core, but CPAN is a hotbed of new development and has been for years. Just look at the new module stream on twitter: https://twitter.com/cpan_new https://twitter.com/cpan_new I bet there's a tonne more work going into Perl modules than Ruby gems...