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No, just about people caring about it. (Okay, that was flip, but Perl has really lost its niche, and not many people are very excited about it now.)
by JasonFruit 7y ago
No, just about people caring about it. (Okay, that was flip, but Perl has really lost its niche, and not many people are very excited about it now.)
- ryl00 7y agoNah, plenty of people still care about it (I should know, I'm one of them!). And with regular expressions front-and-center in perl, I still find it wonderful for text munging.
- JasonFruit 7y agoMaybe I'm just bitter because of Parrot. I so wanted to use it for my language.
- gpvos 7y agoIs Parrot dead (Monty Python pun intended)? I've lost track of the different Perl 6 implementations and their subparts.
- lizmat 7y agoYes, the Parrot project is in deep, very deep hibernation.
- lizmat 7y agoThen you should maybe have a look at MoarVM (https://moarvm.org https://moarvm.org). It is now the main backend for Raku (née Perl 6) and is all that Parrot was intended to be, and then some. If you want to get into it, you might want to have a look at https://github.com/edumentab/rakudo-and-nqp-internals-course https://github.com/edumentab/rakudo-and-nqp-internals-course (course materials that implemented a Ruby and a PHP on MoarVM).
- JasonFruit 7y agoThat looks extremely promising!