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[c0ncrete]

i don't really think the issue is Perl's syntax, but rather the hell that is XS. it's sort of off-putting. i've added custom events before, and that isn't too bad. but some things like adding new objects and exporting (or importing.... yuck) associative arrays aren't quite as straightforward.

[Akkadius]

The XS integration with C++ isn't beautiful and hooking into events may not be as easily integrated as LUA but we have most functionality that a person would really care for in Perl.

[Zaela_S]

I don't doubt it.

On the other hand, everything you could really need out of a central repository you can get from SVN. And now we expect everyone to switch to, and learn to use, Git. And that is very much a good thing.