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Piledriver is an experiment to improve Perl 5. It is in a very early stage.

We're currently working on our first feature, exceptions! All core functions will throw exceptions and there will be a proper try/catch block. No more or die and messing around with eval blocks.

The goals are...

• Make it easier to work on particularly for people who are not C programmers.
• Be welcoming of new contributors.
• Aggressively fix and extend the language with known good ideas.
• Eliminate the need to load CPAN modules for basic language features.
• Maintain 100% backwards compatibility with Perl 5.
• Contribute back to Perl 5.
• Produce stable, production-ready releases.
• Enjoy ourselves while we do it.

Got questions? We have answers.