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I would like Perl to be the Perfect Extended Ruby Language. Sometime ago, there was a post from some Perl people about using Scala for the next Perl. Today Hask

I would like Perl to be the Perfect Extended Ruby Language. Sometime ago, there was a post from some Perl people about using Scala for the next Perl. Today Haskell, Clojure, Julia, Scala, Ruby and Lisp (batteries provided by quicklisp) are very big contenders. Perl has cpan but I think the Perl community is really small, the great exodus happened long ago. Perl can make you feel as a real hacker, also J, but cryptic syntaxes is no longer buying you anything. How can anyone seriously take any credibility to a calendar when Perl 6 has been delayed for ever. Perl 6 is not the gift that Perl 5 was hoping to receive, Perl 6 is a modest advance not a revolution. Today, now, we need much more. I wish Perl 6 the best, but I doesn't believe it will gets much traction. Edited: Grammar. Summary: Too little, too late, there is no longer confidence.

esaym 12y ago
Honestly, there are so many (too many) languages out there now. I highly doubt any of them has more than 100 regular contributers. Perl built an awesome foundation because in the beginning, that was all there was so you had 1000's of regular contributers to the core and cpan. I don't think any language will ever see that kind of activity again. Perl6 has a lot going for it though. I believe with its new OO system, concurrency similar to Go, and the ability to compile to a binary, might take this new language to places where Ruby, Python, Perl5 can't go. And in the similar perl5 fashion, it will be the programmers and not the corporates that own it. Therefore one is only limited by their imagination and not their pocket book.
- drostie 12y ago
  Do you mean contributors to the core or to the package system? Because NPM (for Node.js) has a cool way to browse the recent updates at 100/page at https://www.npmjs.org/browse/updated https://www.npmjs.org/browse/updated and so far today over 500 modules have been updated. We live in a much bigger world than Perl was, so that's not surprising. The huge trouble is that these hackers don't talk much to each other.
  - eCa 12y ago
    The equivalent in the Perl world is at https://metacpan.org/recent https://metacpan.org/recent.

esaym 12y ago

Honestly, there are so many (too many) languages out there now. I highly doubt any of them has more than 100 regular contributers. Perl built an awesome foundation because in the beginning, that was all there was so you had 1000's of regular contributers to the core and cpan. I don't think any language will ever see that kind of activity again. Perl6 has a lot going for it though. I believe with its new OO system, concurrency similar to Go, and the ability to compile to a binary, might take this new language to places where Ruby, Python, Perl5 can't go. And in the similar perl5 fashion, it will be the programmers and not the corporates that own it. Therefore one is only limited by their imagination and not their pocket book.

drostie 12y ago
Do you mean contributors to the core or to the package system? Because NPM (for Node.js) has a cool way to browse the recent updates at 100/page at https://www.npmjs.org/browse/updated https://www.npmjs.org/browse/updated and so far today over 500 modules have been updated. We live in a much bigger world than Perl was, so that's not surprising. The huge trouble is that these hackers don't talk much to each other.
- eCa 12y ago
  The equivalent in the Perl world is at https://metacpan.org/recent https://metacpan.org/recent.