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Thanks for the recommendations. One liners are fun, and life-saving. I am curious about this aspect compared to Perl 5. With Perl 6's new syntax and language f

• raiph 8y ago
  Cons: * Rakudo -- the only P6 compiler for now (and likely many years, maybe forever) -- has a slow startup, around 0.1 seconds or so. * Rakudo is still a work in progress. What's done is pretty solid but, for example, no one has implemented the `-a` awk/autosplit command line option (cf https://gist.github.com/raiph/1d0cbefcb3cfe45b0b906282e6e40519 https://gist.github.com/raiph/1d0cbefcb3cfe45b0b906282e6e405...) and command line usage is currently `use strict;` by default so you have to declare variables with `my`. * Pros P6 makes for sweet oneliners... 25 one liners being written up this month: https://perl6.online/category/advent-calendar/ https://perl6.online/category/advent-calendar/ 9 categories last updated a year ago: https://github.com/dnmfarrell/Perl6-One-Liners https://github.com/dnmfarrell/Perl6-One-Liners https://www.google.com/search?q=perl6+oneliners https://www.google.com/search?q=perl6+oneliners https://www.google.com/search?q=perl6+one+liners https://www.google.com/search?q=perl6+one+liners
• 4thaccount 8y ago
  Personally, over time I fully expect it to beat P5 in mostly everything given enough time.