ActivePerl is an industry standard for programming in Perl, as the original creators of Perl for Windows. Precompiled with popular modules, supported for production. To ensure that enterprises can safely adopt open source software (OSS) like Perl in their mission critical applications, ActiveState has been in the business of providing supported, community-derived OSS language distributions for more than 20 years. When writing scripts, integrating systems, or developing applications in Perl, 97% of the Fortune 1000 think of ActivePerl. Getting started with coding in Perl easy - ActivePerl is optimized to run consistently across your operating systems, with popular modules precompiled so you don’t have to do the plumbing to get started. ActivePerl distribution features popular third-party packages, all of which have been carefully curated for license compliance and stale-dated components that may arise from lack of community support. Only then are the packages incorporated into AtiveState's distributions through a process of rigorous testing, patching and optimization to ensure compatibility and performance.