3 ms·

I am honestly disappointed, I think Raku is a much nicer language than Perl 5 or 7 And I really wish, if those working on Perl 5 would have switched to Raku, b

I am honestly disappointed, I think Raku is a much nicer language than Perl 5 or 7 And I really wish, if those working on Perl 5 would have switched to Raku, but sadly i think CPAN for Perl 5/7, have a lot more activity than the equivalent at Raku Most new and modern languages are Compiled, Functional or targeting the JVM or .Net frameworks Raku is I think the last and only modern scripting language , it could have used the helping hand of the Perl 5/7 community

goto11 6y ago
There is a lot of Perl 5 code around though. Improving 5 (in a backwards compatible way) therefore provides a lot of value. But a Perl 7 which is not focused on retaining backwards compatibility with 5 is worst of both worlds. Existing code bases will not upgrade, and nobody will start a green field project in it when Raku (not to mention Python, Ruby etc) is available. It would be dead in the water.
Icathian 6y ago
Isn't Python typically considered a scripting language, and usually ranked as at least top 3 in popularity?
- systems 6y ago
  Yes, but the way i see it, Raku (Perl6) was a complete rewrite of Perl .. was a radical change (rational numbers, grammar, multimethods, ...) Python 3, is in my opinion more of an incremental and conservative change
moonchild 6y ago
Raku is JIT-compiled, same as JVM/.net languages. And python and javascript and ruby and lua and...
- systems 6y ago
  Clojure and F#, have some complexity that you wont find in Raku, try installing all 3 and run a simple script Clojure, you will need boot or leiningen , or use the new command line tools which are not supported on windows F#, you will install dotnet core and will have to learn about the differend SDKs and compatibility differences between OSes Next try to find, install use package, its a lot less obvious how to do this compared to what I call a pure scripting language like Raku And compared to Ruby and Python, I think Raku have more modern features , gradual typing, rational number, grammars, unicode operators etc .. Raku is one very few pure scripting language where innovation is still happening

goto11 6y ago

There is a lot of Perl 5 code around though. Improving 5 (in a backwards compatible way) therefore provides a lot of value. But a Perl 7 which is not focused on retaining backwards compatibility with 5 is worst of both worlds. Existing code bases will not upgrade, and nobody will start a green field project in it when Raku (not to mention Python, Ruby etc) is available. It would be dead in the water.

Icathian 6y ago

Isn't Python typically considered a scripting language, and usually ranked as at least top 3 in popularity?

systems 6y ago
Yes, but the way i see it, Raku (Perl6) was a complete rewrite of Perl .. was a radical change (rational numbers, grammar, multimethods, ...) Python 3, is in my opinion more of an incremental and conservative change

moonchild 6y ago

Raku is JIT-compiled, same as JVM/.net languages. And python and javascript and ruby and lua and...

systems 6y ago
Clojure and F#, have some complexity that you wont find in Raku, try installing all 3 and run a simple script Clojure, you will need boot or leiningen , or use the new command line tools which are not supported on windows F#, you will install dotnet core and will have to learn about the differend SDKs and compatibility differences between OSes Next try to find, install use package, its a lot less obvious how to do this compared to what I call a pure scripting language like Raku And compared to Ruby and Python, I think Raku have more modern features , gradual typing, rational number, grammars, unicode operators etc .. Raku is one very few pure scripting language where innovation is still happening