Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku

Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by Myrmornis on Friday October 11, 2019 @07:28PM (#21229332)

Those sorts of startup times discourage writing command-line tools (e.g. composable text processing things one might join with pipes).

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by cutler on Saturday October 12, 2019 @12:29AM (#21230690)

Ruby scripting has occupied the sysadmin space for over a decade yet on my 2013 Macbook Pro the latest Ruby 2.6.5 takes around 250ms to start. That's a mere 1/4 of a second. Sure, Python, Perl and PHP have shorter startup times but surely this is a non-problem?

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by Myrmornis on Sunday October 13, 2019 @02:09PM (#21241815)

No, things like sort, grep, uniq, cut, wc, cat, awk, sed, tr, etc etc. You wouldn't want them to take 1/4 second to start up.

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