On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 1:32 AM Jon Smart <j...@smartown.nl> wrote: > > I plan to port a binary protocol client to perl6/raku. > I have zero experience on this. Where should I get started?
How well do you know programming, and Raku, and is the protocol a standard one you can link to with several existing implementations? If the main motivation is just getting stuff done, consider using an existing implementation of the protocol. This will of course mean you'll have a dependency on that implementation, plus whatever PL it's written in, plus the Inline for that PL, but that can mean a working solution in a few minutes, maybe a few hours. A complementary or alternate strategy if you're willing to wait until the time is right would be to wait for alatennaub to get far enough with their binary regex effort: https://www.reddit.com/r/rakulang/comments/qqcnzr/binary_regex/ https://www.reddit.com/r/rakulang/comments/rm2tve/ writing_a_snes_assembler_compilerdisassembler_day/hpjziq4/ Then you could (presumably) use that. (And/or you could collaborate with them to accelerate things.) -- love, raiph
