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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by IslaDeEncanta on Monday November 07, 2016 @02:02AM (#12889407)
Perl 5 is a more expressive and logically consistent language than Perl 6. If I want something Perlish, I'm using Perl 5 no matter what.
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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by rurban on Monday November 07, 2016 @04:21AM (#12889805)
This is completely wrong. Perl 6 is a much more expressive and logically consistent language than Perl 5.

On the other hand Perl 5 is faster for normal usage, and has mature library support, while perl6 has to catchup a lot. Perl 5 is only slower with their not-existing/silly object systems (Moose), there Perl 6 is much better.

Many perl5 devs just don't want to learn a new language yet.

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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by berntb on Monday November 07, 2016 @04:28AM (#12889820)
I'll agree with the rest, but not about Moose. It is not Perl 6, but is still probably better than most other scripting language OO systems.
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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by Ulti on Monday November 07, 2016 @07:10AM (#12890455)
Not for performance which is what I think rurban was getting at.
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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by rurban on Monday November 07, 2016 @07:33AM (#12890541)
Performance and syntax. features are almost OK, despite the type system.

Syntax: It explicitly deviates from perl6 and could have looked much cleaner.

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