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I was interested in Perl 6 and hopeful it would fix some of the Perl 5 community’s problems until I read this post. Now I’m wondering if the remaining Perl 6 c
by natch 9y ago
I was interested in Perl 6 and hopeful it would fix some of the Perl 5 community’s problems until I read this post.
Now I’m wondering if the remaining Perl 6 community is just a bunch of basically compulsively clever show-off blowhards that I would never want to work with. There were always some of them with Perl 5 too (along with plenty of let’s-get-stuff-done people who I do like) but the unpleasant ones seem to have firmly taken over now. And that’s not just looking at the spirit of this blog post... it’s looking at some of the language features that they decided to have.
- jxramos 9y agoI'm in this camp too, knowing how Python is growing in adoption because of its stylistic expressiveness conventions I wonder what the growth rate of Perl has been. I was at a company 6 years ago that wrote Perl scripts but two companies since I have yet to see it again. Various companies I've interviewed at in the meantime don't have it as part of their tech-stack either. Where is this stuff being used exactly?