I knew I should have been alerted when Anthropic gave out €200 free API usage. Evidently they know.

The parser is also quite good by now. Perl5 had to bootstrap pperl with parsing in the beginning, but not anymore.

The AI tar pits are real. "We'll use the regex crate - it will be fine." And me being like: "No."

OTOH, the AI kept telling me that I'm absolutely right, so it must be good. ;-)

Project page is: https://perl.petamem.com/

Deep-linking into a reveal slideshow from the presentation - which is meant to be navigated by keyboard arrows ONLY - is suboptimal.

Yes, standing in such a hole is normally not recommended without shoring - safety first - but you do not know the soil specifics. It's like concrete, the excavator digging that hole stood on its very edge after 2 days of rain no problem at all. Disadvantage of such soil is that the percolation rate goes against zero.

Yes, doing a "Perl Interpreter" (it's way more than that) even with the help of the most advanced AI on the planet is PITA. The coding agents do fake, lie or are way out of their depth, but when you are used to limited AI since the 90ies - like me - you know how to handle it. Good News is that in 2 years you will probably tell your AI to create you - just for the laughs - a Perl interpreter AND smarthome system before you go to bed. You will have them ready for breakfast.

As for the maturity of the project, it's really too soon. I thought the German Perl Workshop would be in May, but mixed that up with last years' date, so I presented what I had. In about two months this should be nice(r).

And one final remark: Everyone knows Torvalds for the Linux kernel. Most don't know or ignore he did git too. Here, I presented two things: WHIP and pperl. WHIP being a smarthome solution way above and beyond what is available on the market today, but that seems to somehow evade peoples minds when they see the slides.