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I don't know if there are any wide polls available about this, but from my experience: - Most perl developers moved on long ago. My last 3 bosses were all "per
by ericdykstra 10y ago
I don't know if there are any wide polls available about this, but from my experience:
- Most perl developers moved on long ago. My last 3 bosses were all "perl" people who switched to Ruby as their primary language around 2010.
- No strong argument that perl 6 is "best-in-class" for any particular type of problem. This is often what brings interest in new languages (Go, Elixir, and Rust for example, all have this).
- Sniffnoy 10y agoUnicode handling? Perl 6 seems to be the only language I've seen that truly grapples with the complexity of Unicode -- at least when it comes to combining characters and normal forms. Seems other languages generally just assume that one code point is one "character".
- Scarblac 10y agoSo how many large "Unicode handling" applications have you seen recently? For most people the Unicode handling isn't the main problem they're solving, and most languages are more or less good enough now.
- marcosdumay 10y agoIt's more than that. Yes, every other language has flaws on Unicode handling. But those flaws persist exactly because they are not important. It's been I long time I don't write a "Unicode handling" application, yet the only environment where I ever got problems with it on the last decade was .Net. And it was a very small problem, worked around in less time than I've lost on this HN page.
- empath75 10y agoSwift supposedly also gets deep into the weeds with Unicode.