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I switched from Cygwin to MSYS2 about a year ago. I find package management via pacman easier. If you are on Windows 10 there is also the Ubuntu Bash shell, although I have not made much use of that yet so can't comment on it.

That said, I use Strawberry Perl for the bulk of my perl work, and msys2 largely for unix command line tools.

WRT the IDE, I use Komodo. The Edit version is free but lacks key parts of the full IDE's functionality. I don't know how much, though.

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Re^4: perl on windows - just installed how to proceed
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 20, 2019 at 16:03 UTC
    WRT the IDE, I use Komodo. The Edit version is free but lacks key parts of the full IDE's functionality. I don't know how much, though.

    I've been using Komodo Edit forever and it has everything I need, and a bit more. On the other hand Komodo IDE has a lot of cool features like unit testing, version control, repl, rx toolkit, etc, etc, etc. I guess the choice depends on if you really need the full IDE, but the editor lacks nothing crucial afaik.

      intelliJ IDEA with the Camelcade Perl5 Plugin, along with Devel::Camelcadedb provides full-blown functionality which includes debugging support. It's also cross-platform (with Vim and Emacs plugins).