Re: A place to discuss Perl language design questions

On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:44:25 +0100
"Philippe Bruhat (BooK)" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 02:57:38PM +0000, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans wrote:
> > I am looking for a place to hold discussions about various language
> > design issues I keep thinking up, relating to all sorts of things.
> > 
> > I'm 99% sure that this mailing list isn't really the place. Mostly
> > because most of the people who would have interesting ideas and
> > use-cases and actual "I run real Perl code in production systems"
> > experience are not here.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any suggestions on a better place?
> > 
> > I don't know for sure whether such a place even exists, yet.. So if
> > not it might become more of a question about where we should create
> > it, and ensure the right sorts of folks are there.
> > 
> > Ideas?  
> 
> I'm not keen on reddit for such conversations.

Yuh ;)

> Also, I'm less concerned about GitHub going away than reddit becoming
> very messy. And a lot of language activity already happens on GitHub.
> Maybe the issues of https://github.com/perl/PPCs are not a terrible
> place for such conversations? After all, PPCs are about the evolution
> of the language.
> 
> You could always link to the PPCs issue conversation from any forum
> (reddit, blogs.perl.org, etc) if you want to reach a larger audience.

Hrmmmm. PPCs aren't a bad idea I suppose. Though it suggests that all
such ideas want to become PPC documents. Maybe that's a principle we
should be aiming at, or maybe not?

That said, currently the PPCs repo doesn't have "Discussions" opened,
only "Issues". I feel the latter is more about talking over minor
points of existing PPC docs. I'm looking more for a place to open
larger questions that at least initially are much less concrete, a lot
more handwavy "in this general area..." sort of things.

-- 
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

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