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> I would encourage the community to either decide that it's OK just continuing on as it is, or decide that it wants to try to find that new unique value propos
by justinator 5y ago
> I would encourage the community to either decide that it's OK just continuing on as it is, or decide that it wants to try to find that new unique value proposition that will give it some sort of unique value in 2023 or 2024
But that's what Perl 6/Raku was supposed to be, right? And that turned out to be a disaster.
- jerf 5y agoI don't guarantee the success of an effort to find a new value proposition! It is necessary, not sufficient. And it broke away so far from Perl 5 that it is no longer Perl 5's new value proposition. The Perl 5 community will need to come up with one of their own.
- justinator 5y agoIn time it broke away but ~20 years ago, the promise was backwards compatibility. Looking back, that's madness, but it's one of the decisions that totally grounded development of Perl 5.