List of Perl software and tools

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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.

• 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^[1]
• CGI.pm — module for writing CGI web applications
• CPAN — Perl module software repository^[2]
• Dancer — lightweight web framework, inspired by Ruby's Sinatra.
• Fink — port and package open-source Unix programs to macOS
• 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^[3]
• 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^[4]

• Padre
• Komodo IDE
• Eclipse
• Visual Studio Code
• Atom
• Geany
• NetBeans^[5]

• GitHub Codespaces
• Replit
• JDoodle

• 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

• 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

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

• Test::Simple — basic testing framework
• Test::More — unit testing module^[6]
• Test::Exception — testing exception handling
• Test::Harness — runs Perl tests and summarizes results

• Math::BigInt — arbitrary-size integer library^[7]
• Math::BigFloat — arbitrary-precision floating-point library^[8]
• Math::Complex — complex number computations^[9]
• Math::Matrix — matrix algebra library
• PDL — Perl Data Language for scientific computing and numerical operations
• Statistics::Descriptive — basic statistics module

• BioMOBY — bioinformatics web services platform
• BioPerl — bioinformatics^[10]

• 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^[11]

• DBIx::Class — map relational database table rows to Perl objects and generates SQL queries^[12]
• Perl Database Interface (DBI)— embed database communication within programs^[13]
• DBD::mysql — MySQL driver for DBI
• DBD::Pg — PostgreSQL driver for DBI
• DBD::SQLite — SQLite driver for DBI^[14]

• Perl::Critic
• PerlTidy^[15]
• Padre – IDE for Perl that also provides static code analysis to check for common beginner errors

• Greymatter — blogging platform
• Movable Type — blogging platform
• WikiWikiWeb — early wiki software

• 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 Python software
• List of free software programmed in Perl
• List of Perl programming books
• List of computer programming journals
• Outline of Perl

• 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