Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
by axaxs on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:48PM
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People like easy to read languages. Many years ago, when I first got back into development, I decided to choose to learn Python or Perl. After doing some research, it seemed Perl was more widespread. But Python was easier to read, so I went that route instead(luckily). I think the popularity of Basic and Golang vs their competitors of the time help prove this point. People say that Go is only popular because of Google, but I honestly feel if Rust and Go switched owners, it would have played out the same way.
Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
by sverige on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:23PM
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Fifteen years hasn't been enough of a chance?
Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
by proverbialbunny on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:35PM
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15 years? Raku just recently came out.
Perl was the popular language once upon a time ago. But it stagnated while new technology came in to replace the old.
Perl is an old language, pre OOP. It's a language from the 90s, when everyone was hacking together code not knowing what the future would be like. There is a lack of organization. Perl is like C in syntax, features, and in speed. Python is like C++. Every failing you can find in Perl stems from it being a PP language first, from dirty code to kids not learning it in college.
Raku attempts to address every failing of Perl, yet be better than Python. If it succeeds, who knows, but I hope it gets at least a chance to make something of itself.