Im skeptical to this announcement. Is this announcement a carefull attempt to test the waters before going full steam ahead with Perl 7? Exactly how much support does this have from the community? My first impression is; I dont like this.

My work with Perl primarily consists of maintaining and extending a major object-oriented codebase. The codebase is only a year old, written from scratch by me, for my current employer. All code follows Perl 5 best practices. I use a lot of Moose, so warnings and strict is mostly on by default from Moose. While these new defaults would likely help me out, I would rather prefer to explicitly type out my "use" statements on top of each file.

I can also add that I dont take any issue with the possibility of having to rewrite portions of my code over time, to stay compatible with perl 7. Rewriting my own code for improvement is fine.

What I dont like is the potential for breaking changes towards CPAN modules, specifically mature modules that are "done", and may not be actively maintained, but perfectly safe to use.

I also dont like the potential for breaking linux/distro tooling, and probably being force to run multiple versions of Perl.