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

Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by progman on Monday November 07, 2016 @10:13AM (#12891650)

I (former Perl5 dev) am amazed that Perl6 actually has become "production-ready", after all those years. I find it quite good, and there are many interesting new concepts.

However, some things seem to be harder. For instance, it seems that I can't use the handy =~ s/.../ string replacements anymore but have to write grammar rules. Is that true?

If the old way is still possible (without Perl5 mode) then I cannot find it in Perl6's documentation.

Apart from that -- good work!

BTW: There is only one thing which I really dislike about Perl6, and that is that "nifty logo" :-) If you want to attract professional developers you should provide a professionally looking logo.

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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by zoffix222 on Monday November 07, 2016 @10:17AM (#12891684)

The s/// is still there. You just use ~~ smartmatch operator instead of =~ binding operator. I did get it to pop up in the docs search results: https://docs.perl6.org/language/operators#index-entry-s%2F%2...

I personally like the method version: .subst() and .subst-mutate()

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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by progman on Monday November 07, 2016 @10:19AM (#12891710)

Wow, that was a quick answer. Thanks so much!

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