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If perl6 had not been the Duke Nukem Forever of programming languages, I'd probably still be coding in Perl, but Ruby just came along and offered a very similal
by jlg23 7y ago
If perl6 had not been the Duke Nukem Forever of programming languages, I'd probably still be coding in Perl, but Ruby just came along and offered a very similaly spirited playground. And then I found lisp and realized that my late perl code was very lisp-ish anyway.
- lizmat 7y agoDid Duke Nukem Forever change its name? Perl 6 has. It's called Raku now (https://raku.org https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). And it is very much alive and ready for production.
- jlg23 7y agoNo, but it was so long in the making that I had discovered alternatives and mastered them. I still write perl5 sometimes but none of perl6 features convinced me to install an interpreter anywhere when I already have ruby or python on the machine.
- lizmat 7y agoToo bad. And now it is too late, because Perl 6 has been renamed to Raku (https://raku.org https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). Which features would convince you to install Raku?
- jlg23 7y agoWhich does it offer that are not covered by ruby, python or CL? I am fluent in a lot of languages and cannot really imagine anything that could motivate me to upgrade my perl5 black belt to perl6 except for a well-paid gig that requires it.
- lizmat 7y agoBetter Unicode support and async/parallel processing primitives that don't depend on a GIL, are the first things that come up.