Re:Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?
by mmaunder on Thursday August 29, 2019 @10:28AM
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Since you had to ask, I'm guessing you don't use it either.
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I don't use it yet, either. Why are you trying to make it sound like a new language needs instant adoption, or it's dead for all time? It's not going to expire if it takes a few years.
There are two programming languages that I learned in their first 5 years. They both ended up being languages I dislike. A language that takes time to mature and isn't the pop language of the week sounds terrific to me.
Good languages stay in use for decades. If I miss the first 5-10 years of a new programming language, either I'll skip its turbulent youth and still be around for most of its life, or it'll turn out to have been a flash-in-the-pan language and I'll have missed nothing.
Well you can take a look fairly easily with this https://perl6intro.com/ and this https://glot.io/new/perl6
If you want to be fancy you can run the JS implementation of the Rakudo compiler in browser targeting JS https://perl6.github.io/6pad/#b66f6f0eb46f296b8a285c45a152f1...