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by muraiki
4151 days ago
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I can't seem to reply to chromatic, but my point here was to address one of the parent post's specific criticisms, that of being "modern". At least here on HN, rising languages such as Go, Scala, Elixir, and Clojure offer many of these features to help address developers' pain points. The authors of Go have themselves expressed surprise that their real audience ended up being disaffected Python programmers. If we want to talk about modern languages we have to of course talk about their features. There's more to a language than features, but there was once a time when none of the above languages had much of an ecosystem or community. Rather, they all offer something compelling, such as type safety in Scala, concurrency in Elixir, etc. I just wanted to touch upon how Perl 6 offers many of these things. |
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Sure, but in the world where I write software, my teams need code with a working ecosystem of documentation, tooling, libraries, trained or trainable developers, deployment and monitoring, and stability. I can get that from Go, Scala, and Clojure (haven't looked at Elixir).
Looking at P6's laundry list of features may be interesting from a language geek perspective, but it doesn't help me solve real problems for the foreseeable future, and there are plenty of interesting languages further ahead in the queue of things to learn.