- a Perl module distribution
- a generic eventing framework
- suitable for all kinds of IO-bound tasks
- a way to achieve IO concurrency
- portable to Linux, Solaris, BSDs, other POSIXes
- mostly-working on cygwin
- able to use OS-specific optimisations where appropriate
- able to use Glib for running GTK2-based GUI applications
Its design is centred around passing code references as continuations; handlers to invoke when a certain event happens, or after a certain operation has completed. By relying on lexical variable capture in these code references, these continuations can easily store state in normal variables.
It's a different approach than that taken by POE, the other eventing system for Perl, but I find this approach fits better in my head. If you dislike storing state in a hash to pass it around disjoint named functions loosely connected by event names, you might just want to give it a try...
