And the article's complaint about its stat() interface, while accurate in theory, misses the existence of https://p3rl.org/File::stat https://p3rl.org/File::sta

And the article's complaint about its stat() interface, while accurate in theory, misses the existence of https://p3rl.org/File::stat https://p3rl.org/File::stat (and there's some similar other modules for things like localtime()) which gives you named access. Also being able to use https://p3rl.org/App::FatPack https://p3rl.org/App::FatPack to bundle (pure perl) dependencies along with your code into a single script file to ship around makes life significantly easier deployment-wise (and https://p3rl.org/Object::Remote https://p3rl.org/Object::Remote allows for 'no deployment at all', it runs 'ssh <target> perl -' and ships the code it needs across the wire on connect).