What happened to Perl 6?

Posted Jun 8, 2022 10:12 UTC (Wed) by niner (subscriber, #26151)
In reply to: What happened to Perl 6? by rgmoore
Parent article: What happened to Perl 7?

I have looked at a lot of features in Raku with a skeptical eye, but honestly, I still cannot point out anything that was clearly just done for change's sake. Not after understanding how those things actually fit together. Part of learning the language is having these moments of "oh, now that other thing makes sense". It's usually about consistency.

What happened to Perl 6?

Posted Jun 13, 2022 21:35 UTC (Mon) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

There was brief loud pushback about “adding unnecessary complexity to the compiler” or whatever when − [U+2212] and friends (×÷) were added. But the little details like that make it so much nicer to use than, well, anything, that I rarely need to think twice about using `raku -e` for quick experiments. The only text-munging tool I use it can't reasonably replace is jq, and I can't use that without getting lost in its manpage for an hour…