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Side note: I'm quitting Reddit. I need to come back here. This is why: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vj72hj/how_to_wr...

Many people trying to develop software treat AI as magic pixie dust they can sprinkle on a problem to make it go away. For coding, this as "AI-led engineering." The literature is r…

I've tried to push entity-component-systems (ECS) for non-game applications. A financial company in London took that advice to manage the complexity of their system since it was su…

This was brought up a few times. There were several issues with that approach. * `bless` and `class` aren't topologically equivalent: you can't twist and warp one into the other * …

And in the new class syntax, when it's done, that's (roughly): class Point { field $x :param :reader; field $y :param :reader; method as_string() { return "($x,$y)"; } } my $origin…

> A senior member of Ethiopia's media accused Facebook of “just standing by and watching this country fall apart”. Why the hell does one company get hold so much power in the world…

Oh, that is a long and complicated story. Perl 6 was announced a long time ago, but it took many years of development and planning and I (like others) used to joke that Duke Nukem …

Yes, late December, 1987, after the events I describe. It was released on Usenet, as I recall. I didn't even know what Usenet was back then. For me, it was pretty exciting to dial …

Well, duh :) Perl's still more popular than people think. I saw on the Board of Directors for the Perl foundation for years, regularly speak at conferences for it, have released to…

As a short summary about Perl 7: If your Perl is old-school, that's OK. Use Perl 5 and we'll keeping supporting you. If you your Perl isn't old-school, use Perl 7 and get new featu…

Just to be clear to everyone: this doesn't break anything. If you continue to use Perl version 5, you're fine. If you want to upgrade your major version of Perl, then of course you…

I've known Jeff for many years, both as a friend, an employee, and a fellow presenter at conferences. I've hung out with him drinking beer in numerous countries around the world. I…

I'm also curious about the "no single-purpose accounts" guideline because I can't find that in the guidelines you have linked to. Have I overlooked something? I sounds like you mig…

Red looks interesting. Though I don't like the mapping of tables to "model". In general, I find that a model should be a consumer of an ORM, not the ORM itself. Otherwise, you expo…

I get hired all the time to fix legacy systems in Perl or to build new systems in Perl. We're still out there, but it's not "cool" to talk about.

The https://taustation.space/ game runs great on Perl 5, but yes, with a robust Perl 6, many things would have been easier to implement. But by "robust" I don't mean just the langu…

This has been a huge deal for the Perl community. First, it was thought that Perl 6 would be the replacement for Perl 5. But it was long ago recognized that there was no clear upgr…

"author of the post in question" God, what a horrible typo :)

> Perl6 has been under development for over a decade at this point, and this equivocating statement is the best that can be said about performance? If the "work is clear, the goals…