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I wrote a short answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12890552 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12890552 If you like go's conc stuff, then I'm

I wrote a short answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12890552 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12890552 If you like go's conc stuff, then I'm sure you'll love Perl 6's async/conc/paralel. stuff: https://docs.perl6.org/language/concurrency#High-level_APIs https://docs.perl6.org/language/concurrency#High-level_APIs I wrote an IRC API with Perl 6 that I really love, since it makes it so easy for me to parallelize a plugin's work, while working with an async protocol, all the while connected to multiple servers, all with the same short script: http://perl6.party/post/IRC-Client-Perl-6-Multi-Server-IRC-Module http://perl6.party/post/IRC-Client-Perl-6-Multi-Server-IRC-M...

oelmekki 10y ago
Thanks! I'm going to be honest: nothing in what is described seems to me like a new idea that makes me want to try perl6. Floating point safeness is in R, dsl is in ruby, concurrence is in golang. And unicode... I'm not exactly sure what the problem is with other languages, I guess it never hit me. :) That being said, it's cool to see all those features in the same language. I'll keep it in mind if anyone mentions all or most of those as pain points.
- Woodi 10y ago
  So, floating point safesness is in R, dsl in ruby, concurency in Go and Unicode in... ? What if you want two features at once ? Or all of them ? ;) Examples: multi wins(Scissors $, Paper $) { +1 }; # dispatch on types my @a = 1..5; say [+] @a; # 15 (a,b,c) Z (1,2,3) # ((a,1),(b,2),(c,3)) my $time = now; say now - $time; class Person does Employee { } use NativeCall; # WOW and MORE ! So ansering: why Perl6 hasn't taken off yet ? Becouse language specification was released 11 month ago with referential implementation (just like Amaya in 1996). So give it 2 years, it will be "fully operational" ;)
  - oelmekki 10y ago
    > So, floating point safesness is in R, dsl in ruby, concurency in Go and Unicode in... ? What if you want two features at once ? Or all of them ? ;) I'm pretty sure you noticed this was exactly the questions my comment was addressing ;)
    - Woodi 10y ago
      Oops, but noticied now :)

oelmekki 10y ago

Thanks! I'm going to be honest: nothing in what is described seems to me like a new idea that makes me want to try perl6. Floating point safeness is in R, dsl is in ruby, concurrence is in golang. And unicode... I'm not exactly sure what the problem is with other languages, I guess it never hit me. :) That being said, it's cool to see all those features in the same language. I'll keep it in mind if anyone mentions all or most of those as pain points.

Woodi 10y ago
So, floating point safesness is in R, dsl in ruby, concurency in Go and Unicode in... ? What if you want two features at once ? Or all of them ? ;) Examples: multi wins(Scissors $, Paper $) { +1 }; # dispatch on types my @a = 1..5; say [+] @a; # 15 (a,b,c) Z (1,2,3) # ((a,1),(b,2),(c,3)) my $time = now; say now - $time; class Person does Employee { } use NativeCall; # WOW and MORE ! So ansering: why Perl6 hasn't taken off yet ? Becouse language specification was released 11 month ago with referential implementation (just like Amaya in 1996). So give it 2 years, it will be "fully operational" ;)
- oelmekki 10y ago
  > So, floating point safesness is in R, dsl in ruby, concurency in Go and Unicode in... ? What if you want two features at once ? Or all of them ? ;) I'm pretty sure you noticed this was exactly the questions my comment was addressing ;)
  - Woodi 10y ago
    Oops, but noticied now :)