List of Perl software and tools

This is a list of software and programming tools for the Perl programming language, which includes Perl modules, debuggers, compilers, integrated development environments, build automation, and related projects.

Modules and tools

ActivePerl — commercial and free Perl distribution from ActiveState Amavis — content filter for email Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy — open-source transparent SMTP proxy server AWStats — Web analytics reporting tool AxKit — XML Apache publishing framework BackupPC — backup software for servers and workstations Big Medium — content management system Bricolage — content management system Catalyst — Model–view–controller web framework CGI.pm — module for writing CGI web applications CPAN — Perl module software repository Dancer — lightweight web framework, inspired by Ruby's Sinatra. Fink — port and package open-source Unix programs to macOS Foswiki — enterprise wiki, typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge base or document management system Gtk2-Perl — Perl bindings for the GTK graphical user interface toolkit Ikonboard — forum software Infobot — IRC bot and chatbot framework Koha — open-source library management system Library for WWW in Perl — set of modules for web access and manipulation Lyrion Music Server — music server software Majordomo — mailing list manager MARC — library data archive format Matt's Script Archive — collection of Perl scripts Mojolicious — real-time web framework Moose — postmodern object system Movable Type — blogging platform NTP pool — network time protocol management service OTRS — ticketing and help desk system Parrot VM — virtual machine designed for dynamic languages Perl Archive Toolkit — packaging and deployment tool for computer applications and libraries Perl Object Environment — object-oriented framework Perl package manager – package manager Perlbal — reverse proxy, load balancer, and web server. Plack — Perl web application toolkit Proxmox Virtual Environment — virtualization management platform Perl Web Server Gateway Interface (PSGI) – interface between web servers and web applications and frameworks Qpsmtpd — Simple Mail Transfer Protocol daemon Request Tracker — issue tracking system Slash — collaborative publishing platform Sprog — RSS aggregator SQL-Ledger — accounting system Strawberry Perl — Perl distribution for Windows Template Toolkit — template processing system TWiki — structured wiki and collaboration platform VERTCON — computes the modeled difference in orthometric height W3Perl — web server log analyzer WebGUI — content management system

Integrated development environments

Padre Komodo IDE Eclipse Visual Studio Code Atom Geany NetBeans

Online IDEs GitHub Codespaces Replit JDoodle

Compilers

B::C compiler — takes Perl source and generates C source code B::CC compiler B::Bytecode compiler — compiles a Perl script into a bytecode format that could be loaded later by the ByteLoader module perlcompile — modules for compiling Perl scripts into executables PAR::Packer — package Perl applications into standalone executables

Build and automation tools Dist::Zilla — distribution builder Module::Build — tool for building, testing, and installing Perl modules. ExtUtils::MakeMaker — traditional Perl module building tool Carton — dependency manager for Perl projects

Debugging tools Bugzilla — bug tracking system Debbugs — bug tracking system Devel::Cover — code coverage analysis tool

Unit testing Test::Simple — basic testing framework Test::More — unit testing module Test::Exception — testing exception handling Test::Harness — runs Perl tests and summarizes results

Mathematical libraries Math::BigInt — arbitrary-size integer library Math::BigFloat — arbitrary-precision floating-point library Math::Complex — complex number computations Math::Matrix — matrix algebra library PDL — Perl Data Language for scientific computing and numerical operations Statistics::Descriptive — basic statistics module

Scientific libraries BioMOBY — bioinformatics web services platform BioPerl — bioinformatics

Machine learning and artificial intelligence AI::Perceptron — simple neural network implementation AI::FANN — Perl bindings for Fast Artificial Neural Network library Algorithm-LibLinear-0.26 — support vector machine module Perl Data Language — machine learning using k-means clustering

Databases DBIx::Class — map relational database table rows to Perl objects and generates SQL queries Perl Database Interface (DBI)— embed database communication within programsPerl Database Interface DBD::mysql — MySQL driver for DBI DBD::Pg — PostgreSQL driver for DBI DBD::SQLite — SQLite driver for DBI

Static code analysis

Perl::Critic PerlTidy Padre – IDE for Perl that also provides static code analysis to check for common beginner errors

List of other open-source applications using Perl Greymatter — blogging platform Movable Type — blogging platform WikiWikiWeb — early wiki software

See also CPanel — web hosting control panel written in Perl List of C software and tools List of C++ software and tools List of Ruby software and tools List of Java frameworks List of JavaScript libraries and Comparison of JavaScript-based web frameworks List of PHP software and tools List of Python software List of free software programmed in Perl List of Perl programming books List of computer programming journals Outline of Perl

References

External links hachiojipm/awesome-perl at GitHub uhub/awesome-perl at GitHub Perl core modules - Perldoc Browser List of 35,047 Perl modules MetaCPAN: Perl module repository Official Perl website