Thanks for the explanation Marc.
I hope there is a chance to cheer up perl/perl6 again.
Such as ML makes python become active, and Rails made ruby popular once.

Regards.

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 5:44 PM Marc Chantreux <e...@phear.org> wrote:

> hello,
>
> > I like ruby and perl
>
> so do I but raku is by far my prefered interpreted langage now.
> I don't raku that much and most of the time, i read the doc more than i
> actually write code but when it's writen, it's always elegant and
> concise the way i never seen before.
>
> > Maybe perl6 is still not production-ready?
>
> Perl6 is now raku.
>
> it depends: what do you mean by "production" and "ready"? start with
> some few non-critical usecases and you'll see raku is production ready
> enough for lot of things.
>
> > but why so few open source projects which were developed by perl6?
>
> wow ... interesting question. my cents on it:
>
> * raku shines on interpreted langages when people are moving to compiled
> langages
> * raku is that rich it's hard to get it in a first view
> * raku is still way too slow to be taken seriously by a large audience
> * js or python developpers are legions on the market now so everyone
>   choose this as an argument
> * we need more packages on raku.land
> * i really think technologies are massively adopted when they are
>   packaged in main linux distros because lot of people don't want to
>   bother compiling an interpreter or adding extra repos to do it.
>
> regards,
> marc
>

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