What if it had taken Nintendo 35 years to release the next GameBoy, and they now came along and said: "Listen up, everybody! We finally did it! It has a 16 bit processor now instead of 8 and 4 bit shades of green instead of 2, but it won't play any of your GameBoy games; you'll have to write new ones." -- If they did that, then being a hobby for a small number of true weirdos is the only way they could hope to fit into 2026. That's what Raku feels like to me.
> What if it had taken Nintendo 35 years to release the next GameBoy<p>More like Nintendo took 35 years to release the "VideoGameGirl", a product with a completely different name, and then suddenly a bunch of die-hard GameBoy fans are complaining that this separate product, even if it shares origin with the GameBoy, somehow doesn't even run games made for a different console.<p>That's how this Perl/Raku navelgazing feels like to me.
Not everything needs to be a mainstream movement, and not being one doesn’t automatically make you a “true weirdo”.
Not everything, but <i>languages</i> do serve a purpose tied to how many (and which) people speak them, and that's true for general purpose programming languages in the same way as for human languages. If learning Klingon is someone's "thing" then, well, everyone can judge for themselves whether the predicate "true weirdo" applies or not, but it's descriptive enough.
lol - I guess there is no defence for the long delays in getting Perl6 out of the door (2000-2015) and for sure that Osborned perl (5) and created a justified reaction from the perl community who wished that it had never happened. Thus the (slow) divorce with this being the decree nisi.<p>Turns out that Larry (and the team) were much better at language design than project management.<p>That said, since 2015 we have been blessed with an awesome new language.
Are you saying this as a Perl programmer or as an observer who never wrote any Perl?
Context: Raku was formerly Perl 6; it was renamed in October 2019 for compatibility reasons.<p>> The major goal Wall suggested in his initial speech was the removal of historical warts. These included the confusion surrounding sigil usage for containers, the ambiguity between the select functions, and the syntactic impact of bareword filehandles. There were many other problems that Perl programmers had discussed fixing for years, and these were explicitly addressed by Wall in his speech.<p>> An implication of these goals was that Perl 6 would not have backward compatibility with the existing Perl codebase. This meant that some code which was correctly interpreted by a Perl 5 compiler would not be accepted by a Perl 6 compiler. Since backward compatibility is a common goal when enhancing software, the breaking changes in Perl 6 had to be stated explicitly. The distinction between Perl 5 and Perl 6 became so large that eventually Perl 6 was renamed Raku.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raku_(programming_language)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raku_(programming_language)</a>
You know what my favourite Perl joke is, invented it myself, raku is a Japanese lisp :D
And the original blog post from almost a year ago: <a href="https://dev.to/lizmat/towards-a-raku-foundation-3ne2" rel="nofollow">https://dev.to/lizmat/towards-a-raku-foundation-3ne2</a>
I got 502 bad gateway.
Then a register page. With a section about "Cyber Resilience Act".<p>That section is worth a read in my opinion.
sorry about the 502, glad to hear that is now resolved - there is some dogfooding going on with this site (uses <a href="https://harcstack.org" rel="nofollow">https://harcstack.org</a>)<p>well yeah the call to action is for all interested folks to register so that we can share details on how to become a member of the foundation
The link isn't working for me - anyone else?
see also <a href="https://dev.to/lizmat/a-year-later-a-trf-1lh0" rel="nofollow">https://dev.to/lizmat/a-year-later-a-trf-1lh0</a> for some history and perspective
Good read, thanks.