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I keep wanting to get into Raku. It has such a rich pedigree of everything learned from decades of Perl, in a clean slate. It seems to suffer from lack of adopt
by imglorp 2y ago
I keep wanting to get into Raku. It has such a rich pedigree of everything learned from decades of Perl, in a clean slate. It seems to suffer from lack of adoption but it seems better than *sh in every way except for ubiquity.
- gnubison 2y agoIt is much more complicated than Perl. Every feature you could ever want, in multiple ways, it seems like. Perl isn’t too complicated or large of a language.
- reddit_clone 2y agoIndeed Raku is a delight to use for 'shell scripting'. Perl was originally written as an amalgamation of grep,sed,tr, awk and I am sure a few more unix utilities with their own mini languages. The idea was to use one language instead of tying together half a dozen mini-languages in a shell script. And it worked really well. Perl being a demon with text munging didn't hurt. Raku keeps this heritage but adds so much more (for better or worse :-) ). It inherits ideas from Lisp and functional programming languages. The thing that impressed me was, how easy it was to use concurrency.
- aaronbaugher 2y agoI try Perl 6/Raku every few years, so it seems like I've tried it half a dozen times by now since it started. I like some things about it, but in a way it seems like an academic project, more suited for experimentation than doing work. I always come back to Perl, which has been my favorite hammer for 30 years.