Originally published at Perl Weekly 784
Hi there,
I remember the release of Catalyst, MVC web application framework in 2005. It was the first time, I heard about MVC. Unfortunately, I never got to work with it until I joined my current work place. We have very well crafted application using Catalyst. The creator of Catalyst, John Napiorkowski, recently shared his plan to revisit Catalyst and named the project (working name), CatalystNext. The details of the project is shared in the post. I am going to use this opportunity to learn Catalyst from zero.
In case you missed, we just had two maintenance releases, Perl v5.40.5 and Perl v5.42.3. The highlights of both releases was security patches, CVE-2026-8376, CVE-2026-57432 and CVE-2026-13221. Thank you core team members.
I am a big fan of experimental class feature of latest Perl. Recently I came across a documentary titled, The Java Story. It brought back some old memories when I was offered to pick the languages: Perl and Java. No prize for the guessing the answer, I chose Perl. After watching the documentary, I decided to checkout how experimental class deals with Encapsulation, Reflection and Immutable Class. Please checkout the blog post below where I shared my findings.
