To boldly go where Node man has gone before

Re:To boldly go where Node man has gone before by m0shen on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @05:26PM (#3984101)

I don't understand the attitudes either. While I enjoy writing Javascript for Node, when other Node users tell me they hate Perl, I can do nothing but give them a blank stare.

So you want an environment that is easy to program in a functional style with closures and first class functions. Has a large ecosystem, including hundreds (thousands?) of packages to do asynchronous IO. Is easily extensible and can fall back on code written in C. Finally, has a large and active community ( Madison NAPC is sold out )?

And Perl isn't even on your radar?

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Re:To boldly go where Node man has gone before by sciurus on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @10:52PM (#3985139)

For the curious, I recently took some simple examples I'd seen in node.js

https://github.com/semmypurewal/node-talk-examples/

and translated them to Perl.

https://github.com/sciurus/anyevent-plack-examples

If you're interested in functional programming, I've learned a lot from the parts I've read of Higher-Order Perl.

http://hop.perl.plover.com/

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Re:To boldly go where Node man has gone before by kisom on Thursday May 17, 2012 @07:35AM (#3986475)

It's not hip and exciting anymore and generations of poor Perl coders have everyone convinced Perl code must always look ugly.

I'm a fan of C and Python myself, but I always chuckle at all the Perl hate.

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Re:To boldly go where Node man has gone before by m0shen on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @10:55AM (#4008098)

That should read: YAPC::NA

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