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Did perl5 to perl6 actually happen? I feel like perl mostly fell out of favor along the way.
by lostapathy 7mo ago
Did perl5 to perl6 actually happen? I feel like perl mostly fell out of favor along the way.
- Polizeiposaune 7mo agoIt's a good example of a migration that mostly didn't happen.
- __d 7mo agoFrom one perspective, the XLibre folks seem to be taking the Perl5 path, and hoping Wayland is Raku.
- MBCook 7mo agoNo. Perl 6 was renamed Raku (?) so people wouldn’t be confused that the 5 line was continuing development. Basically, to the degree I understand, the language was effectively forked into two.
- __d 7mo agoDisclosure: I'm not intimately familiar with all this. I think Perl5 was originally planned to be replaced by Perl6. Then Perl6 took much longer than anyone expected, and kinda ended up in a different place. Perl5 was re-anointed as the once-and-future Perl, and what had been Perl6 became Raku. If I remember correctly, somewhere in the middle of all that there was talk of running Python (and other languages) on the new Perl6 VM.
- lizmat 7mo agoThe Rakudo implementation of the Raku Programming Language uses the MoarVM, which is pretty much a generic VM. All you need to do(TM) is write a grammar and associated actions to build the right bytecode out of the given Python source.