"I have never needed them, nor wanted them (no need to post those massively annoying and now legally required cookie notices if not using them)."

Then don't use them?

"Now I am experiencing anomalies because of my hidden-field data"

Sounds like an issue with your code... which can happen regardless of the language used ;). Modern frameworks make life easier, and more fun, e.g. Mojolicious.

"updates are a massive headache when subroutines cannot accept named variables"

Perlcook book (2003?) - 10.7. Passing by Named Parameter.

"Raku's subroutines do support named variables, which would solve this problem and make my code more maintainable and future-proof."

Debatable.

In reply to Re^4: [RAKU] How to install zef on Ubuntu 22.04 by marto
in thread [RAKU] How to install zef on Ubuntu 22.04 by Polyglot

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