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Yesterday, we saw await being used at the program toplevel, where its behaviour is simply to wait for a future to finish, and we saw some definitions of functions declared as async sub which return futures. One of the defini [...]

Yesterday we got our first look at the async/await syntax in a couple of simple examples. We saw how a function can be declared with async sub, and how a toplevel await expression can be used to invoke it and obtain its retu [...]

A few years ago I wrote an advent calendar series of blog posts about handling asynchronous control flow using Futures in Perl. I've decided it's about time to revisit that and update it with more modern style - namely, using the new async/await synt [...]

1. App::cpm - a fast CPAN module installer
   • Version: 0.995 on 2020-11-28
   • Votes: 49
   • Previous version: 0.994 was 21 days before
2. A [...]

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 36

Week's winners (+3): Plack

Build date: 2020/11/28 15:51:00 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Acme::Working::Out::Dependencies::From::META::files::Will::Be::Wrong::At::Some::Point::Like::T [...]

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2020-11-28 15:35:26 GMT

1. Perl: Best way to open a file exclusively? - [4/1]
2. Store and read string with newline from Config [...]

1. Convert::Binary::C - Binary Data Conversion using C Types
   • Version: 0.83 on 2020-11-19
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 0.79 was [...]

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 60

Week's winner (+3): Tickit::Widgets

Build date: 2020/11/21 14:22:09 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• File::ShouldUpdate - should files be rebuilt?
• Mojo::SAML - A SAML2 toolkit using the M [...]

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2020-11-21 14:12:14 GMT

1. How to avoid "deep recursion" error/warning in Type::Tiny::_build_coercion - [4/1]
2. perl shebang: `T [...]

1. Amon2 - lightweight web application framework
   • Version: 6.15 on 2020-11-09
   • Votes: 26
   • Previous version: 6.14 was 6 months, 2 [...]

1. Alien::Build - Build external dependencies for use in CPAN
   • Version: 2.37 on 2020-11-02
   • Votes: 19
   • Previous version: 2 [...]

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 37

Week's winner: IO::Pager (+2)

Build date: 2020/11/07 18:59:27 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• App::riap - Riap command-line client shell
• Business::DPD - handle DPD label generation
• Math [...]

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
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Build date: 2020-11-07 18:21:26 GMT

1. Is it possible to modify word character class or \b boundary to exclude underscore character? - [4 [...]

1. App::GitGot - A tool to make it easier to manage multiple git repositories.
   • Version: 1.339 on 2020-10-30
   • Votes: 20
   • P [...]

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 35

Week's winner: Ask (+4)

Build date: 2020/10/31 15:39:59 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• CAD::Mesh3D - Create and Manipulate 3D Vertexes and Meshes and output for 3D printing
• Encode::Bas [...]