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Perl6 was a reaction to Perl5's loss of mindshare, but it took a very long time to arrive and still cannot be used as a drop-in replacement for the latter. It h
by cygx 7y ago
Perl6 was a reaction to Perl5's loss of mindshare, but it took a very long time to arrive and still cannot be used as a drop-in replacement for the latter. It has rather different strengths and weaknesses and thus has to find a new niche to live in.
- microtherion 7y ago> Perl6 was a reaction to Perl5's loss of mindshare That's not the way I remember it. The Perl 6 effort was announced in 2000, and (at least by the ever-fickle TIOBE index), Perl marketshare kept growing until 2003 and did not start declining until 2005: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/perl/ https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/perl/
- raiph 7y agoThe GP spoke of mindshare. Marketshare shifts frequently lag shifts in mindshare by years. Some Perl fora had started to become hostile by 1999. It had clearly begun to lose core talent and something needed to be done about that.
- microtherion 7y agoThere was plenty of hostility in 1996, too. By 2000, certainly some people decided something needed to be done about the hostility, but I don't recall "core talent" leaving over it.
- raiph 7y agoMaybe I'm wrong. My memory is too hazy on it partly because I was just an outsider looking in. I know some "important people" quit p5p, but could well believe they didn't quit the community. [1] [1] https://www.perl.com/pub/2000/05/p5pdigest/THISWEEK-20000507.html/#Moderation_is_Imminent https://www.perl.com/pub/2000/05/p5pdigest/THISWEEK-20000507...
- cygx 7y agoBy that time, Amazon for example had already decided that Perl's time had passed. Another case in point, look at the Google trend for "perl tutorial"[1]. Unfortunately, that only starts at 2004, but you can still see by that metric, Perl popularity already was in sharp decline when Tiobe still had it fluctuating around a peak. [1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=perl%20tutorial https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=p...
- idlewords 7y agoIt took a while to realize how great the distance would be between perl 5 and perl 6, and how far off into hyperspace the latter would go.