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Over the years I have learned and dipped my toes in many programming languages, and I'd need some kind of reason to look into yet another language. What are Raku's main contributions to the programming language design space that I probably haven't seen elsewhere?
Is perl or "Raku" still used in serious new applications these days? I'm not talking about gluing stuff together with scripts - I mean a large project operating wholly under it
https://www.rexify.org/ -- an automation framework
https://mojolicious.org/ -- amazing web framework
https://metacpan.org/pod/DBIx::Class::Manual - amazing ORM
Sadly only first part is complete. Raku is the much more functionally inspired new Perl. It’s the renaming of Perl 6 and means “camel” or “paradise” in Japanese.
Is Perl/Raku widely used these days? Are they worth learning? I've always been curious about those languages but I've had the impression that people are moving away from them.
Over the years I have learned and dipped my toes in many programming languages, and I'd need some kind of reason to look into yet another language. What are Raku's main contributions to the programming language design space that I probably haven't seen elsewhere?
Over the years I have learned and dipped my toes in many programming languages, and I'd need some kind of reason to look into yet another language. What are Raku's main contributions to the programming language design space that I probably haven't seen elsewhere?
Sadly only first part is complete. Raku is the much more functionally inspired new Perl. It’s the renaming of Perl 6 and means “camel” or “paradise” in Japanese.
Is Perl/Raku widely used these days? Are they worth learning? I've always been curious about those languages but I've had the impression that people are moving away from them.
Over the years I have learned and dipped my toes in many programming languages, and I'd need some kind of reason to look into yet another language. What are Raku's main contributions to the programming language design space that I probably haven't seen elsewhere?
Gradual / optional type declaration, grammars as a first class language feature, async / parallel programming, rational numbers, lazy evaluation, OOP with classes and roles and an underlying metaobject protocol.
Is perl or "Raku" still used in serious new applications these days? I'm not talking about gluing stuff together with scripts - I mean a large project operating wholly under it
In Perl's case, it's not that the production-ready libraries and frameworks aren't there -- they are, and they are fast and stable and in some cases very sophisticated -- but simply that the community of developers likely to start a "serious new application" has passed Perl by for more modern (e.g., Rust, Elixir, Kotlin, Go even if its ideas are old) or ubiquitious (e.g. JS, Python) choices.
In Raku's case, there is not a deep bench of libraries and tools suitable for production.
In both cases, hiring for previous knowledge is not practical.
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Gradual / optional type declaration, grammars as a first class language feature, async / parallel programming, rational numbers, lazy evaluation, OOP with classes and roles and an underlying metaobject protocol.
The real bummer about optional typing is that it doesn’t speed up the program. I used it all over thinking that I was “optimizing” or helping the compiler. Really I was creating more work for it.
Is perl or "Raku" still used in serious new applications these days? I'm not talking about gluing stuff together with scripts - I mean a large project operating wholly under it