Is there a way to hand cpan a perl executable, and have it automatically download all the appropriate dependencies?
So far for me it's worked like "Run command -> get failure -> search on CPAN, install -> repeat 4-5x".
For golang it works like "go install <url> -> run command".
EDIT: And to compile something on my macbook and put it on a shared Linux box for other people on the team to use, it's "GOOS=linux go build -o $BNAME_linux && scp $BNAME_linux user@host:bin/$BNAME", done and dusted.
Look, perl was an amazing thing for its day. As you say, they pioneered new language ecosystem features. But that was all in the 90's and early 2000's; since then other systems have built on that and pioneered even better ecosystem features, so that moving back to perl is a big step backwards.
So far for me it's worked like "Run command -> get failure -> search on CPAN, install -> repeat 4-5x".
For golang it works like "go install <url> -> run command".
EDIT: And to compile something on my macbook and put it on a shared Linux box for other people on the team to use, it's "GOOS=linux go build -o $BNAME_linux && scp $BNAME_linux user@host:bin/$BNAME", done and dusted.
Look, perl was an amazing thing for its day. As you say, they pioneered new language ecosystem features. But that was all in the 90's and early 2000's; since then other systems have built on that and pioneered even better ecosystem features, so that moving back to perl is a big step backwards.