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No, 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 m
by jlg23 7y ago
No, 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.