All Star Guest Speaker Night

On this evening we have the rare pleasure of presentations from two Modern Perl luminaries. We'll kick off with a presentation from Neil Bowers (https://metacpan.org/author/NEILB), who will be joining us remotely (from the UK):

"A short overview (15 mins or so) of the River of CPAN as a model for talking about an analysing inter-distribution dependencies on CPAN. This model came out of discussions at the annual Toolchain Summit, where we also talked about how things can change for authors as more and more CPAN distributions are relying on yours."

To close the evening, Yanick Champoux (https://metacpan.org/author/YANICK) will present to us:

"To JavaScript and Back: Transfixing Tales of Transglotting Thefts (in Toronto)

Last year, Yanick took a deep dive into the JavaScript ecosystem and avidly drank from the framework firehose. As part of the journey to understanding, he was caught uttering "I wonder what that would look like in Perl..." a few times.

In this talk, we'll visit the result of this clash between learning and hubris. We'll touch Redux, MobX / MoobX (https://metacpan.org/release/MoobX), and might even look into the eldritch JSX-like Template::Caribou (https://metacpan.org/release/Template-Caribou).