Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
by Tepix on Friday October 11, 2019 @03:58PM
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Something that can take advantage of the new and improved regular expressions
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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
by riffraff on Friday October 11, 2019 @04:18PM
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I like raku's grammars, and I appreciate the idea of having them as first class, in a way other languages don't have them.
But you have parser libraries that work very well in all major languages, and I'm not sure being integrated in the language makes Raju more valid for any project.
What it does, imo, is offer a special way to solve some stuff by already being there. But it's like saying someone would choose python for a project because it has a built-in set data type.