Steady maintenance

I used to keep up with Perl stuff around the [5.10 .. 5.16] timeframe. Seems like every new release I look at nowadays has something surprising in it. They have built-in class syntax now? They have built-in trim()?? (and it's properly unicode-aware too?)

And the thing is, that's where the surprises end. If I fire up some of my old code from 2014 or whenever it was, it'll probably just work here. I cannot say that about nearly any other language in the mainstream; I've been dealing with constant fallout from GCC and Python all month and those aren't even things I *write*, just use.