Re:Why I’m Learning Perl 6
by weberc2 on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @10:23AM
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Have Jython and IronPython reached compatibility with Python 3 yet? Last I checked they hadn't, or it was still in alpha.
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Re:Why I’m Learning Perl 6
by throwaway7645 on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @01:10PM
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Yes, but ain't nobody really using Jython or IronPython. Yes some people are, but I'd bet a very small group of the greater Python whole. You also introduce incompatibilities that way. Perl6 has this in the base implementation, so I don't have to switch to a lesser maintained distribution.
I don't know, but Python 3 still isn't relevant to many people.
For example, I have to explicitly install 2.7 to be able to use Cocos2d-x build scripts.
Maybe, but it seems like a bad idea to invest in Python 2 (which is teaching is ended of life) just to get parallelism when there are other programming languages that have great concurrency stories and a bright future. That said, if PyPy3 ditches the GIL, let me know!
Re:Why I’m Learning Perl 6
by throwaway7645 on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @01:13PM
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Someone posted an article awhile back...people are moving over by a significant amount now.
Yeah, "not relevant to many people" is a wildly false claim. If it were anywhere near true, we wouldn't see the level of Python 3 support that we have in the major packages (95.8%).