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I suppose Perl 6 "taking off" and becoming such a "poster child of "scripting languages" nowadays is not so much about "scripting languages" but rather "application platforms" instead. Gone are the days where one would just write a bunch of scripts for a cgi-bin--you're now supposed to write a complete environment for deployment onto highly redundant, low-latency clouds--bonus if going "Serverless" and transpiles to JS.

That said, Perl 6 is becoming such an attractive platform for those who have bothered themselves to go and actually try it; being a Perl 5 hacker myself, I'm taking my time learning it in parallel to a few other languages, and its interesting to see how 2 decades of wandering has brought forth. I suppose that maybe Perl 6 will become like a Lisp (in such that learning provides for a deeper appreciation,) or maybe not (e.g. we actually make https://xkcd.com/224/ happen,) but at the end I know Perl 6 will be there as a tool I can reach for.

Sounds like something that would not likely happen on other repos like the CPAN/CRAN/CTAN.

Perhaps the JS community at large would be better off with a similar system? I remember sometime long ago that there was a JSAN effort: http://www.openjsan.org/

The other, darker side of this culture is that you're not calling the code shit, you're actually calling out the author of that code as shit.

Sometimes, it is not really in the code or in the design. Some people are just downright evil.

Excellent screencast, got to understand helpers and 'under' a bit more :) Nice job with the organic way that example was refactored from loud code with lots of duplication all the way to using a Mojolicious::Plugin from the CPAN.

Reminds me of Plan 9 Acme and its middle-click global eval :)

Nice app!!! Keep up the good work! Would love to have custom colors though so looks like the original HN Reader ...