Post #1640523
2026-02-12 08:04 UTC
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@purrperl@noc.social 2026-02-12 08:09
@ar @krutonium @abmurrow @rperezrosario Perl lost function signatures along the way, since they were considered impractical. Perl did gain a "class" keyword, to declare classes for OOP. It didn't use to have that, and supported OOP through an ugly bit of boilerplate code that Perl programmers would have to re-type for every class they wrote. Raku is a sister language to Perl, written by the Perl community, and is a lot more modern, I'm told. I haven't tried Raku yet. https://raku.org/
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@purrperl@noc.social 2026-02-12 08:17
@ar @krutonium @abmurrow @rperezrosario Raku might actually be good candidate to replace Nix with. Rust is too complicated, afaik, and I could be wrong about this, to be a easy, general purpose replacement for Nix. Python is popular, though fragile due to whitespace sensitivity, which counts against it in this case.
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@purrperl@noc.social 2026-02-12 09:35
@ar @krutonium @abmurrow @rperezrosario What's your criticism of DHH? RMS and Matz have been criticized too. See a pattern here? Could it be FUD from well-funded closed source software vendors? The younger generation seems less capable of critical thinking & quick to judge by media smears. It's easy enough for closed source vendors to smear prominent #FOSS developers. Money talks and they have the motive, means & opportunity, and a powerful megaphone to talk through. Don't believe the hype!