CPAN
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
4warn against
Nov 19, 2025first mention
Jun 19, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“There is the fact of having a system of distribution like the original CPAN”
“At least they seemed to have policies”
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Caveats and dissent
“The Perl 5/CPAN ecosystem has been left to rot and is no longer safe for consumption.”
“I fought cpan for two days trying to get anything to work.”
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“the real and absolutely major problem at that time was the success of CPAN, which "killed" Perl 5”
Threads where it came up
- What Killed Perl? 5 mentions
- The Raku Foundation is born 1 mention
- Mass-Produced Software Components 1 mention
- Lotusbail npm package found to be harvesting WhatsApp messages and contacts 1 mention
Data: cpan.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“The Perl 5/CPAN ecosystem has been left to rot and is no longer safe for consumption.”
“There is the fact of having a system of distribution like the original CPAN”
“At least they seemed to have policies”
“I fought cpan for two days trying to get anything to work.”
“the real and absolutely major problem at that time was the success of CPAN, which "killed" Perl 5”
Yeah i'll say, even to this day, when I need a quick script and bash just isn't doing it for me I'll just write it in the same perl I used regularly as far back as 1998... but it never goes further than that. If I have to take that script and build it into anything that will ever leave my laptop it's going to get rewritten in something else (probably golang since it is universal on my team).
“CPAN was a killer app”
“I never took a liking to CPAN.”