Non-blocking / Asynchronous Execution in Perl

Question

Is there a way to implement non-blocking / asynchronous execution (without fork()\'ing) in Perl?

I used to be a Python developer for many years... Python has really great

Answer 1

Twisted also uses cooperative multi-tasking just like POE & Coro.

However it looks like Twisted Deferred does (or can) make use of threads. NB. See this answer from the SO question Twisted: Making code non-blocking

So you would need to go the same route with POE (though using fork is probably preferable).

So one POE solution would be to use: POE::Wheel::Run - portably run blocking code and programs in subprocesses.

For alternatives to POE take a look at AnyEvent and Reflex.