VSCodium is a community-driven, freely licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VS Code, when combined with a Perl extension makes a great IDE for Perl development.
I had been using Padre for Perl development but as that project was abandoned some time ago and it can no longer be installed, I was looking for something else.
The VSCodium IDE is the open source version of Microsoft’s VSCode, and has a large number of extensions that can customise it for particular languages, including Perl.
To install it in Ubuntu
Install Perl::LanguageServer
sudo apt install libanyevent-perl libclass-refresh-perl libcompiler-lexer-perl \ libdata-dump-perl libio-aio-perl libjson-perl libmoose-perl libpadwalker-perl \ libscalar-list-utils-perl libcoro-perl sudo cpan Perl::LanguageServer
Install VSCodium
snap install codium --classic
Install the Perl extension for VSCode
In actual VSCode the quickest route is to type Ctrl-P then type:
ext install richterger.perl
Open a Perl source file, click “Run -> Start Debugging” or hit F5.
Now you can explore all of the VSCocde IDE functions with Perl.
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