@adanskana My limited, now a few years old, experience of perl with respect to the exact things I was trying to achieve at the time, is that if you think you can rely on CPAN for things... you might run into "oh, the maintainer of that hasn't updated it in 5+ years and there's nothing but silence in response to any bug reports or enhancement requests. Good luck figuring out the deep Perl voodoo they used in order to fix/enhance it yourself."

This is why I start new projects in Python now. Sure, it has abandoned modules as well, but I've not *yet* had quite the same show-stopper issues.