* Posts by SoftwareIsHappiness

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We, Wall, we, Wall, Raku: Perl creator blesses new name for version 6 of text-wrangling lingo

SoftwareIsHappiness

Aside from the clear facts that Perl 5 community knows that porting the massive Perl 5 ecosystem to Perl 6 is an enormous undertaking-- perhaps impossible. What is needed a "framework"!!! Especially a comprehensive web stack that has the enthusiasm and adoption of say "Laravel". There are no flagship projects like Perl 5. Of course, re-branding Perl 6 is necessary because it complicates the relationship between versions. Bottom line Perl 6 is another language that has deep roots in Perl 5 but it's not going be popular unless the Perl 6 community shows the rest of the Internet how beautifully articulate Raku can be used to write web applications. Another suggestion, grammars could bridge the conceptual gap and compete with transpiliers in the JavaScript world. Typescript?

Basically, Perl is like a muscle or sports car. If you don't take it out of the garage what good is it!