Re:Perl Turns 34 Today
by Grinnz on Saturday December 18, 2021 @07:55PM
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> That it would be maintained is all that really mattered to me, and there's no doubt in my mind that it would be.
Nor mine, but because I know that Perl 7 would die as most of the maintainers stayed working on Perl 5. Or the worst case: too many leave Perl entirely to maintain either fork. Perhaps some corporations would take up the funding, but it is not a simple piece of software you can throw new developers at and expect progress; it's an enormous C program built on thousands of macros and decades of history, as anyone who has tried writing XS code probably sees in their nightmares.
> As soon as you make breaking changes,
I am referring specifically to doing it without breaking changes, as is the current plan, and the only option at this juncture.
Nor mine, but because I know that Perl 7 would die as most of the maintainers stayed working on Perl 5. Or the worst case: too many leave Perl entirely to maintain either fork. Perhaps some corporations would take up the funding, but it is not a simple piece of software you can throw new developers at and expect progress; it's an enormous C program built on thousands of macros and decades of history, as anyone who has tried writing XS code probably sees in their nightmares.
> As soon as you make breaking changes,
I am referring specifically to doing it without breaking changes, as is the current plan, and the only option at this juncture.