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<p><strong>Note:</strong> Technically, this post qualifies as paid promotion, because I work for <a href="https://www.activestate.com/">ActiveState</a>. But I volunteered to write about our new Platform and promote it because I think what we're doing is really cool and might be of interest to the Perl community at large.</p>
<p>This is a short excerpt of <a href="https://blog.urth.org/2020/12/10/the-activestate-platform-and-perl-5-32/">a longer post that you can read in full on my blog</a>.</p>
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TLDR
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<li>We have an entirely new system that supports Windows and Linux (macOS coming soon), providing you binary builds of the Perl core, Perl distros, and supporting C/C++ libraries.</li>
<li>When you use our <a href="https://www.activestate.com/products/platform/state-tool/">State Tool</a>, <strong>you can create any number of entirely self-contained virtual environments, one per project</strong>. This makes switching between projects trivial and these virtual environments are easily shared across a team or organization.</li>
<li><strong>No more ActiveState Community License!</strong> The only licenses that apply are the original licenses for each open source package we build for you.</li>
<li><strong>You don't need a Platform account to try this out.</strong> But you can play with our system and sign up at any time and keep all the work you've done so far.</li>
<li>It's usually <strong>quite fast</strong>. If we've already built a particular distro/language core for the given platform, we use a cached version, so many builds take a few seconds. Entirely new builds are slower, but still faster than doing it by hand locally in many cases, because we distribute work throughout a build farm.</li>
<li><strong>The core features are all free.</strong> Most features are free for public projects. We also have paid features including private projects, build engineering support, support for older platforms, indemnification, and more.</li>
<li>The Platform has <strong>lots of other cool features</strong> like revisioned projects, advanced dependency resolution, and more.</li>
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<p><a href="https://blog.urth.org/2020/12/10/the-activestate-platform-and-perl-5-32/">Read the rest of the post</a>.</p>