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The main issue I have with swapping Perl with Raku is that a major strength of Perl is its ubiquitousness. Except on Windows, it's almost certainly installed on
by qalmakka 7y ago
The main issue I have with swapping Perl with Raku is that a major strength of Perl is its ubiquitousness. Except on Windows, it's almost certainly installed on 90% of the systems I have ever used. Meanwhile, rakudo is not even in the repositories of most distributions. It's not very encouraging, if I have to be honest.
- kqr 7y agoI'm the same way. I'd love to use Raku over Perl, because it looks like an improvement in many ways. Alas, the use case I have for Perl is whipping up a script on any server for some ad hoc analysis or data massaging or as a UI to something. If I first have to install Raku, I'm more likely to write a shell script or Python code -- both of which tend to execute out of the box. This is also why I'm not as enthusiastic about CPAN as I could be. It's great that the modules are available for when you want to write real applications, but that's not what I do with Perl and one-off scripts really don't seem like it's worth pulling in external dependencies for.