Re: things I miss in Raku (from perl)

On 10/9/24 15:24, Marc Chantreux wrote:
> hello People,
> 
> As I started to write some code again, I gave a talk about "why Raku for
> the research community" (It's in french, sorry about that).
> 
> I had positive feedbacks and some questions so I wrote the ones I
> remembered there:
> 
> https://git.unistra.fr/mc/talks/-/blob/stable/why_raku/raku.slides?ref_type=heads#L364
> 
> the "things I miss from perl" triggered me.  Any help about it ?
> 
> regards
> 

Hi Marc,

I really do adore Raku (Perl 6), so no one get the wrong idea.

In your write up I noticed that you said p5 users were
great at helping.  They are, but can be very crabby
at times.  I have not noticed that with P6, except that I
got banned from the IRC by someone that flamed me with
a bunch of insults.  (I think he took me for someone
else.) I have not tried a new name to get on yet, because
I have always been able to get help over on this mailing
list.

Two things I miss about Perl 5 are

1) how fast it compiles.  P5 will do in less than a second
what P6 takes over 15 seconds.

2) PerlDocs.  I absolute adored PerlDocs.  They start out as
if you do not know what you are doing (they know me!), then
build up to more complex.  They are very, very easy to
follow.  I have trouble even finding what  want o P6's
docs and then when I do, they are written as a refresher
for someone that already knows what they are doing and
does not need them.  They are very difficult for a beginner
to follow.

Things not is either p5 or p6 I like to see:

1) a simple C style call to call system features, etc.  P6
has NativeCall, but it is not for the faint of heart.

2) a GUI library

-T


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