Post #1860355

2022-11-27 20:56 UTC

I'm not trying to say either one is better than the other. Rather, the combination of having them both is great for the overall ecosystem and the users of those languages. At each small step, Perl goes from a reasonable, practical place, to some new reasonable practical place. Each little step is in itself still useful, and incrementally adds value to something that is already useful.

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@leonerd@fosstodon.org 2022-11-27 20:57

Raku, meanwhile, gets to start again and imagine a whole new world. It has a downside that it doesn't get to start off from something that already has practical utility, but by the same reasoning it isn't beholden to compatibility with what came before. It can break old patterns, old ideas, if they are found to be outdated.

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@rwp0@fosstodon.org 2022-11-29 09:31

@leonerd Raku's not present in any Unix system an average system administrator would administer while working to solve a job. Perl almost always is along with Bash and Python usually. Much more than PHP, Ruby, and Lua which rarely are. So it's one of the possible scripting languages to choose to solve the problem faced. Perl has a longer history than any of those; and regarding Perl I think, Raku can also be viewed as a playground for experiments in Perl which is nice.

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