Raku is pretty amazing. I too would use it pretty regularly except it doesn't run on Freebsd properly. Many a times I started a project that would have been a great contribution yet always ran into problems and had to change back to Perl.
It's definitely a good language. It's just not suited for production. On Fri, Nov 19, 2021, 4:44 AM Marc Chantreux <e...@phear.org> wrote: > hello, > > > I like ruby and perl > > so do I but raku is by far my prefered interpreted langage now. > I don't raku that much and most of the time, i read the doc more than i > actually write code but when it's writen, it's always elegant and > concise the way i never seen before. > > > Maybe perl6 is still not production-ready? > > Perl6 is now raku. > > it depends: what do you mean by "production" and "ready"? start with > some few non-critical usecases and you'll see raku is production ready > enough for lot of things. > > > but why so few open source projects which were developed by perl6? > > wow ... interesting question. my cents on it: > > * raku shines on interpreted langages when people are moving to compiled > langages > * raku is that rich it's hard to get it in a first view > * raku is still way too slow to be taken seriously by a large audience > * js or python developpers are legions on the market now so everyone > choose this as an argument > * we need more packages on raku.land > * i really think technologies are massively adopted when they are > packaged in main linux distros because lot of people don't want to > bother compiling an interpreter or adding extra repos to do it. > > regards, > marc >
