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Re:Programming in 1987 versus Today by lizmat on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @08:07AM (#29808397)
FWIW, the Raku Programming Language nowadays *DOES* offer a valid migration path in the form of the Inline::Perl5 (https://raku.land/cpan:NINE/Inline::Perl5) module. This basically allows you to use all of CPAN that doesn't do source filters.

This allows you to gradually move your code into Raku, replacing Perl 5 modules by Raku ones as needed.

As we're about to reach the 2000 modules in the Raku ecosystem mark, it should be noted that many modules from CPAN are not needed, as they're builtins in the Raku Programming Language. And many CPAN modules have outlived their usefulness in any programming language.

Re:Programming in 1987 versus Today by byron4242 on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @08:11AM (#29808429)
Thanks for the pointer. I will look into this with great interest and get a discussion going within my company about whether this implies that we would want to start permitting Raku into our codebase. But I very much doubt that this permission will be granted in the end.
Re:Programming in 1987 versus Today by lizmat on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @10:46AM (#29810390)
Well, the answer is always "no" if you don't ask :-)