Ruby ... fixes everything about perl5 that annoys me, except that Ruby's OO and metaprogramming is weak sauce compared to Moose (written by the presenter of the

Ruby ... fixes everything about perl5 that annoys me, except that Ruby's OO and metaprogramming is weak sauce compared to Moose (written by the presenter of these slides). Without a proper role system, I can't replicate a lot of my designs. Without a proper meta-model, I can't write attribute traits to extend the OO system when I need to. So any time a ruby program of mine gets large enough to need a significant number of classes, it gets ported back to perl5 first so I can do it properly. If you want something lightweight to experiment, try looking at Moo (written by me for smaller projects) - you may find that declarative attribute definitions, method modifiers and roles become very addictive very quickly :)