"Tools, not policies".

I must say, this page reminds me of how lightyears ahead Perl was/is in terms of tooling.

For example: are you coding a package? Before even starting brainstorming, just boostrap your package with ExtUtils::MakeMaker. Long story short, that package will boostrap a mostly blank (but customizable via various command-line switches) Perl package with most things you will need for development and distribution: a directory structure, a Makefile (for building and installing), some pre-set comments, mostly blank test files etc etc.

This is something that, for example, the Go programming language team has rightfully picked up in terms of directory structure conventions and tooling (gofmt).