Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly

Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by kbenson on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @12:47PM (#23630430)

Nodejs is very fast, because it uses an an engine that has had multiple millions of dollars thrown at it to make it fast. Most interpreted languages don't fare well against it.

Perl fares somewhat favorably against Python, Ruby and PHP though. Those are what I would consider equivalent languages to compare against to get a general idea of its speed.

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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by ksec on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:44PM (#23631272)

>multiple millions of dollars

I can pretty much assure you the accumulated dollars invested over the years in making JS fast is likely to be closer to multiple billions combined.

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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by ricardobeat on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:02PM (#23630665)

You don't hear about it, but Perl has had many millions thrown at it too.

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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by ori_b on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:09PM (#23630768)

JS is probably closer to billions.

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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by DonHopkins on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:38PM (#23632866)

Not just orders of magnitude more money, but more importantly the large number of incredibly talented people working full time on JavaScript, in many different companies and research institutions, collaborating together. JavaScript benefits from an overwhelming network effect and critical mass of tools and developers, that Perl just can't touch, and never will.

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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by sergeykish on Thursday June 25, 2020 @07:40AM (#23639462)

Unfortunately it does not change bad parts.

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