Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation Date: September 18, 2025 Author: Olaf Alders --- Overview The Perl and Raku Foundation (TPRF) proudly announces a generous donation of USD 10,000 from Geizhals Preisvergleich. This contribution secures the future of the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund, crucial for sustaining the Perl 5 ecosystem. --- Geizhals and Their Support for Perl Geizhals Preisvergleich: Started in July 1997 as a hobby project. Name meaning: "Geizhals" translates to "skinflint" in English; Geizhals also operates skinflint.co.uk for UK users. Geizhals leverages Perl extensively in their price comparison platform. Serves approximately 4.3 million monthly users. Their donation aids in maintaining the core components of Perl, supporting the ecosystem used globally by startups and enterprises alike. Quote from Michael Kröll, Geizhals Preisvergleich "Perl has been an integral part of our product price comparison platform from the start of the company 25 years ago. Supporting the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund means supporting both present and future of a substantial pillar of Modern Open Source Computing, for us and other current or prospective users." Quote from Stuart J Mackintosh, President of TPRF "Geizhals is not only providing core funding for the Perl ecosystem, but also supporting developers, actively contributing to European conferences, and employing Perl coders. Their interest in the strategic maintenance and development of Perl and CPAN is of great value to us all, and their investment is very much appreciated." --- The Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund and Its Impact The fund covers maintenance and bug-fixing work essential for Perl's stability and reliability. Core maintainer Tony Cook highlights the types of fixes supported by this fund: Fixing Perl crashes caused by signal handling with threaded external libraries (GitHub #22487). Fixing segmentation faults during smartmatch operations involving subroutines exiting loops (GitHub #16608). Fixing memory leaks due to regex warnings. Preventing confusing undefined warning messages related to subroutine parameters with undefined keys (GitHub #22423). These improvements cumulatively ensure Perl remains stable, secure, and efficient for a broad user base. --- Call to Action Continued support from organizations like Geizhals enables TPRF to maintain Perl's core infrastructure for the future. Whether for startups or enterprises dependent on Perl, community and corporate contributions are vital for the language’s sustained development and reliability. --- Contact for Sponsors To contribute or become a sponsor, contact: olaf@perlfoundation.org --- About the Author Olaf Alders Dad, Perl hacker, guitar player, swimmer. Founder of the MetaCPAN project. Browse Olaf Alders' articles --- Related Links Perl.org Get Perl Learn About Perl Get Perl Code (CPAN) Help Perl Foundation --- License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. --- Perl.com and its authors disclaim warranties and liabilities regarding the content’s accuracy or completeness.