Perl 🐪 Weekly #775 - Events and using AI to write Perl

Originally published at Perl Weekly 775 Hi there! I try to keep track of the Perl-related events. You can find them listed at the bottom of each edition of the newsletter and on the events page on the Perl Weekly web site. There you can also find a link to embed the calendar in your calendar program. There are a number of events scheduled for this month. Most of them online, so if your time-zone permits, you can join those events. The big in-person event is at the end of the month The Perl and Raku Conference in Greenville, South Carolina, USA. In the last couple of weeks I have been using various AI tools extensively. It still needs some hand-holding, but it already writes code that seems to be way better than the average code I've seen. So I wonder, would it be possible to ask one of the AI tools to convert Python libraries to Perl? You know, we have been complaining for many years that companies provide implementation for their SDK/API/client in several language, but not in Perl. We also saw that CPAN could not keep up with the growth of PyPI, npm and the other 3rd party library registries. So maybe some of you would like to explore the idea of converting some of these libraries to Perl using AI. Finally a personal note, I am planning a trip to Korea and Japan in September-October. If you live there and would have any travel recommendations, I'd love to get that. Enjoy your week! -- Your editor: Gabor Szabo. Articles Introducing ZuzuScript Toby Inkster created a programming language which blends a fairly JavaScript-like syntax with fairly Perl-like semantics, and a few other features that he hasn't really seen in many programming languages. ANNOUNCE: Perl.Wiki V 1.47, JSTree copy V 1.21 Teaching AI About the British Monarchy with MCP The site already exposes information through a traditional web interface and a JSON API. But those interfaces were designed for humans and developers respectively. MCP gives AI systems a much cleaner integration point. ANNOUNCE: Perl