Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet?

Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by CodeWriter23 on Monday November 07, 2016 @05:56AM (#12890159)

I have tens of thousands of lines of code written to Perl 5 that I can't run under Perl 6. That's it in a nutshell.

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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by zoffix222 on Monday November 07, 2016 @06:04AM (#12890184)

You can use Perl 5 modules via Inline::Perl5.

And "tens of thousands" doesn't sound like a lot to begin with TBH...

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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by jjolla888 on Monday November 07, 2016 @09:01AM (#12891019)

I've heard that Inline::Perl5 is klunky

What's your experience?

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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by zoffix222 on Monday November 07, 2016 @10:11AM (#12891625)

What's "klunky"? You add :from<Perl5> to module name and off you go. The only thing that irks me is Perl 5's common notation is snake_case, but in Perl 6 kebob-case is almost universal, so by bringing in Perl 5 code you break this stylistic convention.

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