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Asked: 2026-06-10T22:04:59+00:00

According to EPIC’s profile on the Eclipse Marketplace , the latest version is 0.5

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According to EPIC’s profile on the Eclipse Marketplace, the latest version is 0.5 and it was last updated on July 8, 2010.

If it isn’t actively developed anymore, what are other popular alternatives on Eclipse?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Is EPIC (Perl plugin) for Eclipse still being actively developed?

    There are some stats available on the sourceforge page:

    • Last commit: April ’12 (!= release)
    • Until now, there have been 1245 repository commits, of which 72 occured since 2010-01-01.
    • There are open, high-priority bugs dating back to 2006
    • There are currently 212 open bugs, 165 of which are unassigned to a developer
    • There are very recent bugs (2012-08-31) of which some are assigned to a developer

    So the answer seems to be “No, it is not being actively developed, but there is a lone developer standing his ground and hunting bugs”.

    alternatives

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    It is my (personal and very disputable) belief that an IDE is of limited use when writing Perl, due to the dynamic and interpreted nature of this language: You have no source to compile, so automatic make-file generation is a non-issue, and many editors support some degree of code completition. Any combination of Editor + Terminal + Documentation will do fine.

    The “big names” of Perl IDEs are EPIC, Komodo, and Padre of course, followed by Emacs and any *nix OS.

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