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perl5 essentially ended with Larry Wall switching to perl6. Don't be fooled by yearly releases, and community bugfixes. It's stagnation and destruction, people
by rurban 5y ago
perl5 essentially ended with Larry Wall switching to perl6. Don't be fooled by yearly releases, and community bugfixes. It's stagnation and destruction, people leaving in masses. A community does only help with support, but it mostly gets worse.
Examples where a community successfully turned the ship around, are Rust, C++ and PHP. But there it were not the community, it were the companies behind driving improvements.
- _448 5y ago> Examples where a community successfully turned the ship around, are ... C++ What are you talking about?
- rurban 5y agoThat the initial C++ was a complete hogdepodge mess, accepting every stupid proposal, and only after several years with proper standardized community proposals, it became Modern C++. Still a mess but better and almost readable.