Re: A place to discuss Perl language design questions

On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 12:12 PM Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>

As you mention, github discussions can be a useful "forum" for questions,
answers, and musings. I'm sure someone around here could enable them in
whatever repo you would find it useful.

-Dan