Re: A place to discuss Perl language design questions

hello People,

On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 10:05:29AM +0100, Martijn Lievaart via perl5-porters wrote:
> Op 19-03-2026 om 23:40 schreef Aristotle Pagaltzis via perl5-porters:
> > * Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <[email protected]> [2026-03-19 16:10]:
> > > 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.
> > Once upon a time, this list *would* have been that place, and in fact
> > *was* that place. It no longer looks anything like that because so many
> > people left – and I think not because another venue drew them away, but
> > because many of them moved on from Perl altogether. If so then there is
> > no getting that level of discussion back, irrespective of venue.

As someone who "moved on Perl altogether" for many years and try to
come back because I finally have the opportunity to chose Perl (and Raku)
again, I'm really happy to know that the tool we once have still exists.

Also: lists are Important for 2 reasons:
* for those who are used with a mail workflow (reading flow from a same
tool then saving, indexing and commenting things in their own PKM),
there is no decent alternatives in the web
* the opportunity of historical conservacy are much more robust from
  mailling lists archives than any other tool.

> Still, I would say this list is still the best place.

"There is no alternative" :)

I hope I'll read from leonerd here soon

Regards

-- 
Marc Chantreux