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Nah, plenty of people still care about it (I should know, I'm one of them!). And with regular expressions front-and-center in perl, I still find it wonderful for text munging.
Maybe I'm just bitter because of Parrot. I so wanted to use it for my language.
I think this is important for a language and IMHO current Perl can't compete with that. For a while Ruby had a pretty colorful and productive batch, and of course Go has some elder statesmen of the industry.
JavaScript... Well, it certainly has a lot of coaches.
Raku = Perl 6, just in case you're wondering.
Sort of. More like "Raku (nee Perl6)" I think. It's (now) called Raku, because it isn't really Perl any more - even though it started out that way. "Perl" is Perl 5 now.
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Maybe I'm just bitter because of Parrot. I so wanted to use it for my language.
Is Parrot dead (Monty Python pun intended)? I've lost track of the different Perl 6 implementations and their subparts.
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Nah, plenty of people still care about it (I should know, I'm one of them!). And with regular expressions front-and-center in perl, I still find it wonderful for text munging.
Maybe I'm just bitter because of Parrot. I so wanted to use it for my language.
I'd rather there was a single way to do something useful in Raku than multiple ways to do something completely useless.
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Maybe I'm just bitter because of Parrot. I so wanted to use it for my language.
Then you should maybe have a look at MoarVM ( https://moarvm.org ). It is now the main backend for Raku (née Perl 6) and is all that Parrot was intended to be, and then some. If you want to get into it, you might want to have a look at https://github.com/edumentab/rakudo-and-nqp-internals-course (course materials that implemented a Ruby and a PHP on MoarVM).