I got permanently banned from the Raku community rather silently. What happened, what is the common history, and honestly, what is the path forward for those who stay. This post is mostly meant to reach out to the…
I wonder where you got that impression from. For me as well, it's rather the overboard lecturing response that seemed like an invocation of "Trevors axiom". By the way, what even defines "simply a blog post"? That's…
Maybe a fast way but is it a fair or even helpful way, if you recognize that it "quickly became a bad name for the project"?
So following your logic, "some of the worst" includes the vast majority of actually used languages and tools. Must be cool to be on the special side. :)
It would be invaluable feedback if you could point out what you find so bizarre? I mean, the "let's define some ad-hoc postcircumfix operator" is a weird flex for sure but otherwise? I could only see basic non-magic…
I don't know, this is "second-hand intel" for me, pretty sure I read it in a very old article from someone of the likes of Carl Mäsak, Moritz Lenz or another early-day Rakudo contributor...
Jonathan Worthington has been much going on and off in the recent years. He still had one big optimization project that got completed in 2021 - the new dispatch mechanism - but I don't know about the benchmarks and I…
Yes, and those claims might have even been real (also, Perl still lags behind on Unicode stuff, or so I heard?)... the thing we like much less to talk about is that there just needs to be somebody to make those…
Oh yes, Bruce Gray was a major influence for me as well a couple of years ago. He often participates in the "Raku Study Group" meetings as well - these are very broad and informal meetings every second Sunday but around…
Just imagine writing bash incorporating a sed script for something you can do with 20 keystrokes, then migrating the sed part to awk until it reaches 20 lines, then rewrite the whole thing to Python or somehow bridge it…
This topic is akin to "holy wars" and since I used to think the same way (still do to some extent), I would like you to at least consider another aspect: the effort it takes to "grok the language and its idioms" is…
I got permanently banned from the Raku community rather silently. What happened, what is the common history, and honestly, what is the path forward for those who stay. This post is mostly meant to reach out to the…
I wonder where you got that impression from. For me as well, it's rather the overboard lecturing response that seemed like an invocation of "Trevors axiom". By the way, what even defines "simply a blog post"? That's…
Maybe a fast way but is it a fair or even helpful way, if you recognize that it "quickly became a bad name for the project"?
So following your logic, "some of the worst" includes the vast majority of actually used languages and tools. Must be cool to be on the special side. :)
It would be invaluable feedback if you could point out what you find so bizarre? I mean, the "let's define some ad-hoc postcircumfix operator" is a weird flex for sure but otherwise? I could only see basic non-magic…
I don't know, this is "second-hand intel" for me, pretty sure I read it in a very old article from someone of the likes of Carl Mäsak, Moritz Lenz or another early-day Rakudo contributor...
Jonathan Worthington has been much going on and off in the recent years. He still had one big optimization project that got completed in 2021 - the new dispatch mechanism - but I don't know about the benchmarks and I…
Yes, and those claims might have even been real (also, Perl still lags behind on Unicode stuff, or so I heard?)... the thing we like much less to talk about is that there just needs to be somebody to make those…
Oh yes, Bruce Gray was a major influence for me as well a couple of years ago. He often participates in the "Raku Study Group" meetings as well - these are very broad and informal meetings every second Sunday but around…
Just imagine writing bash incorporating a sed script for something you can do with 20 keystrokes, then migrating the sed part to awk until it reaches 20 lines, then rewrite the whole thing to Python or somehow bridge it…
This topic is akin to "holy wars" and since I used to think the same way (still do to some extent), I would like you to at least consider another aspect: the effort it takes to "grok the language and its idioms" is…