Perl 6 renamed to Raku

Posted Oct 15, 2019 17:11 UTC (Tue) by theophrastus (guest, #80847)
Parent article: Perl 6 renamed to Raku

So this shift opens the way for Perl 5 to progress (perhaps via backporting some less dramatic features?) to "Perl 6" and beyyyyyond?

Perl 6 renamed to Raku

Posted Oct 15, 2019 17:27 UTC (Tue) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] (3 responses)

Pretty sure they're gonna have to go straight to 7 at this point.

Perl 6 renamed to Raku

Posted Oct 15, 2019 17:57 UTC (Tue) by dezgeg (subscriber, #92243) [Link] (2 responses)

Nah, Perl 5 + Perl 6 obviously results in Perl 11 (aka the Winamp way of versioning).

Perl 6 renamed to Raku

Posted Oct 23, 2019 3:03 UTC (Wed) by naptastic (guest, #60139) [Link] (1 responses)

> Perl 5 + Perl 6 obviously results in Perl 11

/usr/local/bin/perl on my systems is Perl 11.

http://perl11.org/cperl/STATUS.html

Perl 6 renamed to Raku

Posted Oct 25, 2019 6:34 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

I'm not sure that kind of bitterness-driven development is sustainable. The best outcome is that a fork takes over, a la LibreOffice, otherwise it'll have a chronically low bus factor (currently 1).

Perl 6 renamed to Raku

Posted Oct 15, 2019 21:25 UTC (Tue) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

Existing consensus is Perl 5 will be renamed to the "version %d" already displayed in `perl -v`. Expect the next version to be Perl 32 (and expect ignorant hecklers to misinterpret *that* as "not 64-bit").