ovid, (edited ) If you've a background in #C and #Perl and have thought about contributing to the Perl core, you know it's daunting hacking on the core of a language.
@leonerd is offering to help you learn.
https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/09/msg267112.html
Also, he's written a tutorial on how to contribute a core feature: https://leonerds-code.blogspot.com/2021/02/writing-perl-core-feature.html