Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
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Re: Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
#2This 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 upgrade path from Perl 5 to Perl 6, so it was agreed that Perl 6 was a "sister" language to Perl 5 rather than the successor.
Except that many people expected that Perl 6 would be the replacement, so that stalled many projects. So an "alias" for Perl 6 was created, but that didn't seem to help.
Larry has now agreed with the change and Perl 6 will be renamed to "raku" and Perl 5, which has regular, major releases every year, will now be able to simply be "Perl" and be free to continue on its own way.
If I had my choice, I'd program in raku because it's a lovely language addressing many pain points (including being one of the few dynamic languages with a working concurrency model). But it's not adopted widely enough yet for that to happen. Time will tell ...
Re: Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
#3Can someone give the rest of us some context on this?
Re: Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
#4Can someone give the rest of us some context on this?
Perl5 -> Perl6 has been highly contentious.
Perl6 is basically a different language much to the chagrin of many Perl users. A lot of Perl users are entrenched in Perl5.
FWIW: I'm unclear why people continue to use Perl at all, I moved on in 2011.
Re: Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
#5Can someone explain to me, for what kinda of new projects would they use Perl/Raku in 2019 at all?
Re: Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
#6Can someone give the rest of us some context on this?
Perl5 -> Perl6 has been highly contentious. Perl6 is basically a different language much to the chagrin of many Perl users. A lot of Perl users are entrenched in Perl5. FWIW: I'm unclear why people continue to use Perl at all, I moved on in 2011.
In the same boat on the "why haven't people moved on"... Perl use to be ubiquitous but over time it's really gone to the wayside vs. Python tooling for more complex stuff, and back to basic BASH for the simple scripting needs.
Every time Perl comes up in a professional environment for me I'm reluctant to say I'm capable, because it's always a hacked-together mess from an engineer who's likely no longer with the company. (obviously this is VERY anecdotal to my career)
I dropped Perl from my resume about a decade ago because I just frankly don't want to work with it. The language is terse, and I don't think anyone who's starting off these days would be spending their time well by learning it. Make your own opinions, but mine is/has always been "ewww."
Re: Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
#7This 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 upgrade path from Perl 5 to Perl 6, so it was agreed that Perl 6 was a "sister" language to Perl 5 rather than the successor. Except that many people expected that Perl 6 would be the replacement, so that stalled many projects. So an "alias" fo…
>including being one of the few dynamic languages with a working concurrency model...
Elixir is worth a look. It's a pretty productive little language with a great concurrency model.
Re: Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perl5 -> Perl6 has been highly contentious. Perl6 is basically a different language much to the chagrin of many Perl users. A lot of Perl users are entrenched in Perl5. FWIW: I'm unclear why people continue to use Perl at all, I moved on in 2011.
In the same boat on the "why haven't people moved on"... Perl use to be ubiquitous but over time it's really gone to the wayside vs. Python tooling for more complex stuff, and back to basic BASH for the simple scripting needs. Every time Perl comes up in a professional environment for me I'm reluctant to say I'm capable, because it's always a hacked-together mess from an engineer who's likely no longer with the compa…
Definitely not anecdotal, that's the story from EVERY company.
Re: Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
#9Fifteen years too late. But I suppose better late than never.
Re: Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
#10Can someone give the rest of us some context on this?
Perl5 -> Perl6 has been highly contentious. Perl6 is basically a different language much to the chagrin of many Perl users. A lot of Perl users are entrenched in Perl5. FWIW: I'm unclear why people continue to use Perl at all, I moved on in 2011.
> FWIW: I'm unclear why people continue to use Perl at all
Great language, large library on cpan, great eco system, people enjoy using it, they have a large code base that's run fine for decades. Choose 1 or more.
> I moved on in 2011
You're right, it's all about you and what you do...