(ccclxxiv) 5 great CPAN modules released last week

Not too many released, so this is a bonus material:

• 20 best Perl questions at stackoverflow in 2021
• metacpan most voted distributions in 2021
• 10 best Perl distributions created at 2021 (metacpan rating)

Updates for great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12.

1. curry - Create automatic curried method call closures for any class or object
   • Version: 2.000001 on 2021-12-30
   • Votes: 23
   • Previous version: 1.001000 was 4 years, 6 months, 7 days before
2. DBD::CSV - DBI driver for CSV files
   • Version: 0.59 on 2022-01-01
   • Votes: 22
   • Previous version: 0.58 was 10 months, 19 days before
3. DBD::Oracle - Oracle database driver for the DBI module
   • Version: 1.82 on 2021-12-29
   • Votes: 28
   • Previous version: 1.80 was 2 years, 5 months, 4 days before
4. SPVM - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
   • Version: 0.9103 on 2021-12-31
   • Votes: 21
   • Previous version: 0.9102 was 7 days before
5. TheSchwartz - reliable job queue
   • Version: 1.17 on 2021-12-30
   • Votes: 13
   • Previous version: 1.16 was 5 months, 14 days before

10 best perl distributions created at 2021 (metacpan rating)

This list contains distributions created at 2021

1. Crypt::Passphrase (+9)
2. PLS (+7)
3. List::Keywords (+7)
4. Syntax::Keyword::Defer (+6)
5. Feature::Compat::Try (+6)
6. App::perlimports (+6)
7. CGI::Tiny (+5)
8. Acme::ConspiracyTheory::Random (+5)
9. XS::Parse::Keyword (+4)
10. Text::Table::More (+4)

metacpan most voted distributions in 2021

This is the metacpan most voted distributions in 2021

1. Mojolicious (+41)
2. perl (+30)
3. Object::Pad (+18)
4. libwww::perl (+9)
5. Scalar::List::Utils (+9)
6. Path::Tiny (+9)
7. MCE (+9)
8. IO::Async (+9)
9. Dancer2 (+9)
10. Crypt::Passphrase (+9)
11. Type::Tiny (+8)
12. Template::Toolkit (+8)
13. Perl::LanguageServer (+8)
14. PDL (+8)
15. Minion (+8)
16. Future::AsyncAwait (+8)
17. Yancy (+7)
18. Perl::Critic (+7)
19. PLS (+7)
20. List::Keywords (+7)

This is the metacpan most voted distributions in 2021 group by month

• 2021-01

Mojolicious (+8)
perl (+4)


• 2021-02

Acme::ConspiracyTheory::Random (+3)
Mojolicious (+3)


• 2021-03

Data::Printer (+5)
Mojolicious (+4)


• 2021-04

Mojolicious (+4)
App::perlimports (+3)


• 2021-05

perl (+7)
Faster::Maths (+4)


• 2021-06

Object::Pad (+5)
Mojolicious (+3)


• 2021-07

Mojolicious (+6)
PLS (+4)


• 2021-08

Mojolicious (+5)
IO::Async (+4)


• 2021-09

App::cpanminus::reporter (+3)


• 2021-10

Dist::Zilla::MintingProfile::FFI (+3)


• 2021-11

perl (+4)
App::plx (+3)


• 2021-12

RxPerl (+3)

20 best Perl questions at stackoverflow in 2021

This is the ten most rated questions at 2021 Stack Overflow.
Between brackets: question score & answers count
Built date: 2022/01/01 12:28:30 GMT

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1. What does 0 plus a pointer mean? - [37/2]
2. Perl conditional (ternary) operator does no shortcut evaluation - [26/3]
3. python regex where a set of options can occur at most once in a list, in any order - [19/8]
4. How do I release a Perl module to CPAN? - [12/1]
5. Why do Inline::Python functions that print fail to be redirected? - [9/2]
6. "no autovivication" pragma fails with grep in Perl - [8/2]
7. Try::Tiny and $SIG{__DIE__} in perl? - [8/2]
8. Not able to run git svn command in windows - [17/2]
9. Perl - evaluation order of list elements, with assignment inside the list - [8/1]
10. What is the best way in Perl to iterate a loop and extract pairs or triples - [7/6]
11. Change any number of delimiters in found pattern with sed - [7/5]
12. Perl sorting Alpha characters in a special way - [6/3]
13. dynamically add leading underscore to existing sub - [7/2]
14. No error or warning for trying to print to an already closed filehandle - [7/2]
15. Pretending an Autoloaded Function has a Block Prototype - [7/1]
16. Mojo::UserAgent - Inspect the Content-Encoding header before decoding - [7/1]
17. How do you catch a buggy sig die handler if the mechanism to debug code that everyone uses overrides it? - [6/1]
18. How to code a sub with the same signature as sort or reduce in List::Util - [6/1]
19. Find out which scripts are calling a perl package - [7/1]
20. Return value of `ref qr/.../` - [7/1]

10 best perl distributions created at 2016 (metacpan rating)

This list contains distributions created at 2016:

1. LeftPad (+17)
2. Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI (+12)
3. Importer (+8)
4. Test::Needs (+7)
5. MCE::Shared (+6)
6. SQL::Functional (+6)
7. App::opan (+5)
8. LINE::Bot::API (+5)
9. List::SomeUtils (+5)
10. Mojo::ACME (+5)

metacpan most voted distributions in 2016

This is the metacpan most voted distributions in 2016

1. Mojolicious (+64)
2. perl (+31)
3. Dancer2 (+30)
4. DBIx::Class (+28)
5. Path::Tiny (+26)
6. Moose (+24)
7. MongoDB (+19)
8. Moo (+18)
9. Test::Simple (+18)
10. DateTime (+17)

This is the metacpan most voted distributions in 2016 group by month

• 2016-01

Path::Tiny (+8)
Dancer2 (+5)

• 2016-02

Function::Parameters (+7)
Data::Printer (+4)

• 2016-03

Mojolicious (+10)
Dancer2 (+5)

• 2016-04

LeftPad (+15)
Mojolicious (+6)

• 2016-05

perl (+6)
FFI::Platypus (+5)

• 2016-06

MongoDB (+12)
Mojolicious (+9)

• 2016-07

Mojolicious (+6)
Path::Tiny (+4)

• 2016-08

Mojolicious (+10)
Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI (+6)

• 2016-09

Moose (+4)
App::cpm (+3)

• 2016-10

Mojolicious (+6)
perl (+4)

• 2016-11

MCE (+4)
Text::MultiMarkdown (+4)

• 2016-12

Geo::Coder::Google (+3)
PDL::IO::XLSX (+3)

metacpan most voted distributions in 2013

This is the metacpan most voted distributions in 2013

1. Mojolicious (+107)
2. perl (+95)
3. App::cpanminus (+81)
4. Moo (+75)
5. DBIx::Class (+74)
6. DBI (+72)
7. Moose (+72)
8. Plack (+58)
9. Dist::Zilla (+57)
10. DateTime (+50)

This is the metacpan most voted distributions in 2013 group by month

• 2013-01

Moose (+10)
Mojolicious (+8)


• 2013-02

App::cpanminus (+12)
Mango (+12)


• 2013-03

Perl::Tidy (+14)
App::cpanminus (+12)


• 2013-04

App::cpanminus::reporter (+11)
Devel::NYTProf (+9)


• 2013-05

perl (+12)
DBIx::Class (+8)


• 2013-06

Reply (+18)
Mojolicious (+9)


• 2013-07

Moo (+11)
DBI (+10)


• 2013-08

Carton (+16)
Moops (+10)


• 2013-09

Moose (+20)
App::cpanminus (+16)


• 2013-10

Mojolicious (+9)
Devel::hdb (+8)


• 2013-11

Kelp (+6)
DBIx::Class (+5)


• 2013-12

Mojolicious (+9)
Path::Tiny (+9)