Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku

Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by lliamander on Friday October 11, 2019 @08:34PM (#21229640)

I think so, at least in some ways. I've shipped a project using PowerShell to script Windows Server/Hyper-V, and it was a pretty pleasant experience. Having a scripting language that not only does typical scripting stuff (wrangling text, etc.) and understands your application's objects is excellent.

Some differences:

* You can actually write your whole application in Elixir, whereas I could not see doing that with PowerShell

* In Erlang/Elixir, instead of objects you have processes. Think of your application as a microservice architecture on steroids, using the Erlang RPC protocol as a means for inter-process communication.

Because each process just sends and receives messages, your script can just send messages to any of the processes that make up your application, as if they were your own service. All you have to do is connect to the remote application using the Erlang Distribution Protocol (to connect different runtimes over the network).

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by weff_ on Friday October 11, 2019 @08:43PM (#21229698)

I heard so much about the actor model, I should really try it in its intended glory one day.

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by lliamander on Friday October 11, 2019 @08:45PM (#21229713)

It's a trip, and it took me a little while to wrap my head around. However, I now much prefer it to working with other concurrency abstractions (such as callbacks).

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