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I'm about to watch this great #perl6 talk again to remind myself of the difference between #concurrency and #paralellism. #programming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpqnNCx7wVY

Nice!

Someone has begun an #HPMOR comic! 😄

https://www.hpmorcomic.com/

Who would have known that a JKR-free #rational fan fiction of #HarryPotter (love the work, don't care for the author) would be awesome enough to be made into both audiobooks, podcasts and a cartoon?

I'm really happy more are exposed to this work. It's _really_ good! 😄

(Triva: I learned of it in the #rakulang IRC channel, back when it was called #perl6 <3)

Recommended!

If you like the first chapters, you'll like it all!

#Perl: older than some #programming careers, younger at heart than you think.

It’s evolved a lot since 1999 — modern features, cleaner syntax — yet it still runs code you wrote decades ago.

(And if you’re wondering: #Perl6 was renamed Raku in 2019 — it’s a sister language, not a successor.)

Curious? Returning after a long break? @shiar’s cheat sheet is a perfect quick‑scan: https://sheet.shiar.nl/perl

#coding #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #RakuLang #Perl5

#Perl: older than some #programming careers, younger at heart than you think.

It’s evolved a lot since 1999 — modern features, cleaner syntax — yet it still runs code you wrote decades ago.

(And if you’re wondering: #Perl6 was renamed Raku in 2019 — it’s a sister language, not a successor.)

Curious? Returning after a long break? @shiar’s cheat sheet is a perfect quick‑scan: https://sheet.shiar.nl/perl

#coding #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #RakuLang #Perl5

#Perl: older than some #programming careers, younger at heart than you think.

It’s evolved a lot since 1999 — modern features, cleaner syntax — yet it still runs code you wrote decades ago.

(And if you’re wondering: #Perl6 was renamed Raku in 2019 — it’s a sister language, not a successor.)

Curious? Returning after a long break? @shiar’s cheat sheet is a perfect quick‑scan: https://sheet.shiar.nl/perl

#coding #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #RakuLang #Perl5

#Perl: older than some #programming careers, younger at heart than you think.

It’s evolved a lot since 1999 — modern features, cleaner syntax — yet it still runs code you wrote decades ago.

(And if you’re wondering: #Perl6 was renamed Raku in 2019 — it’s a sister language, not a successor.)

Curious? Returning after a long break? @shiar’s cheat sheet is a perfect quick‑scan: https://sheet.shiar.nl/perl

#coding #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #RakuLang #Perl5

#Perl: older than some #programming careers, younger at heart than you think.

It’s evolved a lot since 1999 — modern features, cleaner syntax — yet it still runs code you wrote decades ago.

(And if you’re wondering: #Perl6 was renamed Raku in 2019 — it’s a sister language, not a successor.)

Curious? Returning after a long break? @shiar’s cheat sheet is a perfect quick‑scan: https://sheet.shiar.nl/perl

#coding #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #RakuLang #Perl5

I bought two Raku/Perl 6 books for an unknown reason and had to carry them with me all day. They were very cheap, but I doubt that I’ll ever read them.

#Raku #RakuLang #Perl6 #fosdem #fosdem2025

Haha, working with #RakuLang on this12-year-old AMD 1GHz netbook is really totally doable today.

"It's not your father's #Perl6."

@ChristosArgyrop @oalders It’s a tricky path. #Perl has never been defined by anything other than its implementation. There is no language spec, and no one claims its packaged test suite as a comprehensive means of certification. (Sorry #VelociPerl.)

That’s one of the issues #RakuLang (née #Perl6) sought to address, but it did so by specifying and producing test conformance for a different language.

@profoundlynerdy I don’t know why JPL / #Java #Perl Lingo fizzled. Presumably Larry shifted focus to #RakuLang (née #Perl6) in Y2K and @OReillyMedia didn’t find anyone to take up spearheading it.

/ @fglock

@mjgardner

"'The grand rewrite that was #Perl6 (now #RakuLang) was a decade-plus slow suicide attempt by the Perl community."

Eh? If you mean that the Perl community should have (way back then) helped make Perl 6 (now Raku) a success, and help to make all Perl code run in Raku, so that Perl would no longer be necessary, indeed.

But that did not happen. And now Raku is getting better and more modern. And Perl, well, it's Perl, and Perl is beautiful. But I like Raku better.

#RakuLang

@baboond #Refactoring is exactly the opposite of “abandoning the legacy project and starting anew.”

Do you know what usually happens when a company or project *actually* embarks on the latter? Failure and eclipse by the competition.

This thread started with @adanskana asking if he should learn #Perl: https://mastodon.social/@adanskana/112658986556408140

The grand rewrite that was #Perl6 (now #RakuLang) was a decade-plus slow suicide attempt by the Perl community.

@[email protected]

I'm curious why #Perl6 and #Raku are listed separately.

Just posted: Raku Programming Tutorial: Detect Incoming Asteroids! ...With JPL, NASA, and Raku / Perl 6 https://www.friendlyskies.net/notebook/raku-programming-tutorial-detect-incoming-asteroids-with-jpl-nasa-and-raku-perl-6

#rakulang #perl6 #perl #linux #ubuntu #programming #scripting #foss

Just posted: How to install Raku (programming language) in Ubuntu 22.04 using Rakubrew https://www.friendlyskies.net/notebook/how-to-install-raku-programming-language-in-ubuntu-2204-using-rakubrew

#rakulang #perl6 #perl #linux #ubuntu #programming #scripting #foss

Diane, it's April '24, weather is good, partly cloudy, 21°C, entering the town of sigils formerly known as #Perl6. I just installed the latest Raku and dropped Camelia on the screenshot.

#RakuLang

#Introduction

Programmer since the late #80s.
Basic, Pascal, C++, Java, Prolog, Perl, Bash.

Modern times don't suit me, that's why I try #oldbytes. It looks like I would be among nice guys here and I think I am one too.

I'm here for social interaction on #programming. I have a sweet spot for #Perl and another one for #benchmarking.

After having used (and forgotten again) a dozen other languages I hope to finally integrate #Perl6 a.k.a. #RakuLang into my daily life.

I don't plan to pretend being an expert but will rather muse on unknown territory and appreciate feedback.

@jwz @pjakobs @leonerd @lizmat @Sdowney I just noticed Damian Conway’s comment that #RakuLang (then #Perl6) intended to be “a hundred-year [#programming] language”: https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/issues/81#issuecomment-519776528

IMHO that points to the heart of why the Perl 6 effort was so disastrous for the #Perl community: it tried to create a hundred-year language by burning a decade+-old language for fifteen years.

@pjakobs @jwz @leonerd @Sdowney I think it’s charitable to the #Perl 6 splitters. The Golgafrinchan Ark B group in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was mostly harmless 😉 (and useless); the #Perl6 effort was, at best, neglecting #Perl5 compatibility, and at worst, actively throwing bombs at it.

#h2g2

@jwz @pjakobs To @leonerd’s first point, #Perl6 was renamed #RakuLang in 2019 after @lizmat finally realized that “#Perl" in the name was "confusing and irritating" to all concerned:

https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/tpf-response-raku-rename
https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/issues/81

It was not abandoned, @Sdowney.

@jwz @leonerd @pjakobs To @jacobydave’s point, here are the receipts:

* 2000, v5.6: https://perldoc.perl.org/perl56delta
* 2002, v5.8: https://perldoc.perl.org/perl58delta
(#Perl6 Osbornes the air out of the room for a bit)
* 2007, v5.10: https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5100delta
* 2010, v5.12: https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5120delta

From there it's a new major version like clockwork every year.

So the only thing that didn't change for a decade was @Sdowney's opinion of #Perl.

I took a look at the Raku Guide and I'm loving the stuff in #RakuLang (#Perl6) that wasn't present in Perl 5.

@mort You can get pretty far with #Perl 5* #RegularExpressions. Here's @perlancar’s #CPAN module based on @randalschwartz’s minimal #JSON parser as a single #regex: https://metacpan.org/pod/JSON::Decode::Regexp

Full docs on conditional #regexes, including the special `(DEFINE)` form that merlyn used: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlre#condition-yes-pattern-no-pattern

* #RakuLang hasn't been called #Perl6 for four years now. You're deadnaming the language.

@wordshaper @a13cui @Perl @randomgeek @joelle I don’t know what you mean by “actual #Perl6.” Was anyone outside of the echo chamber convinced that #Perl 6 *wasn’t* the next version after #Perl5.x before *or* during its “sister language” period?

Hell, @lizmat *still* has to interject, even after four years have passed, whenever she spots someone deadnaming #RakuLang.

@lizmat @a13cui @Perl @randomgeek @joelle It was necessary to grudgingly accept the #Perl6 “sister language” narrative because Larry had failed to deliver the “next version of #Perl” eight years after the project’s inception.

#Perl5’s Osborning was largely complete by then regardless of whether the Effect does not accurately describe its namesake. (A namesake unfortunately rarely gets to retcon wide interpretation of the past.)

@a13cui @Perl @randomgeek @joelle You do realize that #RakuLang namesquatting on #Perl6 for nineteen years *was* the Osborning, right?

@lizmat I didn’t take it as a joke. I guess you see it as a dig at #Perl6’s long gestation?

I think an “RCRE” library would be cool. #RakuLang rules and grammars are excellent.

I believe it’s more productive to cheerfully disregard haters and, if possible, redirect the topic to advance a positive message to a friendly audience.

#Trolls hate that. 😁

@ssfckdt Bondage-and-discipline #programming languages at which you can throw waves of interchangeable newbies make life easier for business managers.

#Perl’s reputation was spoiled by waves of newbies producing bad code anyway during the early “Web 1.0” years, followed by a splintering of its core community as #Perl6 (now #RakuLang)’s long development Osborned it to outsiders.

It didn’t have much to do with its #metaprogramming capabilities.

@regehr @PorkBBQ @commodore @dev It’s just “#Perl” to its friends now. #Perl6 was renamed to “Raku” in 2019: https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/tpf-response-raku-rename

#RakuLang #Perl5

@alexstandiford Well, Jon Orwant (now at https://ai.google) infamously threw coffee mugs to light a spark under #Perl6 development at #YAPC 19100, so yes, it does tend to move the problem elsewhere.

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