cnext vs perl5

cnext

an alternate CPAN client using next-cpan GitHub repositories (by next-cpan)

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🐪 The Perl programming language (by Perl)

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cnext		perl5
	Project
2	Mentions	87
4	Stars	1,849
-	Growth	1.2%
0.0	Activity	9.9
almost 4 years ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
Perl	Language	Perl
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

cnext

Posts with mentions or reviews of cnext. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-23.

Perl 2020 retrospective
7 projects | dev.to | 23 Aug 2021

You probably haven't heard of it but the cnext experiment is dead.
Install CPAN modules from different sources with cpanminus
4 projects | dev.to | 26 Mar 2021

There was an experiment (abandoned since then) to build a CPAN client based on github for index and deliveries.

perl5

Posts with mentions or reviews of perl5. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-08.

Perl first commit: a replacement for Awk and sed
1 project | /r/hypeurls | 8 Jul 2023
Perl first commit: a “replacement” for Awk and sed
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jul 2023
"perlclass" is coming in Perl 5.38
1 project | /r/perl | 30 Jun 2023
GitHub crashes on Perl's Configure
3 projects | /r/perl | 1 Jun 2023

I was not signed into GitHub. I opened the permalink and it displayed fine. I opened the raw page in another tab; it was fine.

1 project | /r/perl | 31 May 2023
perldelta v5.38.0 (Draft)
1 project | /r/perl | 21 May 2023
Failed matches don't reset the match variables
1 project | /r/perl | 12 May 2023

Nothing to do with a fixing the trap, it turns out: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/4197fe35a33e6471f8f532abfd06cd6c120f180e which leads to https://rt.perl.org/perl5/Ticket/Display.html?id=109408
What's your favourite software on GitHub?
1 project | /r/github | 22 Apr 2023
How Are the Cool Kids Installing Perl on OSX Nowadays?
4 projects | /r/perl | 8 Apr 2023
SPVM now supports object-oriented programming in Perl
5 projects | dev.to | 10 Mar 2023

As we mentioned last week, this week we are working on a portable, symbolic link implementation that also works on Windows. You can see our progress here. To implement this, the Perl win32/win32.c source code would be greatly appreciated.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cnext and perl5 you can also consider the following projects:

Corinna - Corinna - Bring Modern OO to the Core of Perl

rakudo - 🦋 Rakudo – Raku on MoarVM, JVM, and JS

RFB - Perl Request for Bikeshed

Gource - software version control visualization

inxi - inxi is a full featured CLI system information tool. It is available in most Linux distribution repositories, and does its best to support the BSDs.

(R)?ex - Rex, the friendly automation framework

problem-solving - 🦋 Problem Solving, a repo for handling problems that require review, deliberation and possibly debate

messy-ci-workflows - Messy collection of Perl github ci workflows

optparse - Portable, reentrant, getopt-like option parser

rubygems - Library packaging and distribution for Ruby.

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