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🦋 Raku test suite

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HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-01-18 08:15:45 UTC to 2024-10-22 09:33:59 UTC.

01232015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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librasteve·Oct 22, 2024
Raku has a healthy and stable community that is making steady progress in developing the language. Joint us on IRC or Discord (see https://raku.org for details) to get a feel for the activity level. For me it is an opportunity to hang out wiht very deep knowledgable compiler core folk and I have learned tons. The big effort going into v.6.e (ie the 5th major release of Perl6 == 6.e) is Raku AST which is now in PREVIEW and is a big boost for writing Slangs (Raku sub languages) since you can now use the built in Grammar parsing to generate AST code - and is the precursor to macros and improved JIT optimisation. The Raku spec is actually the ROAST test suite https://github.com/Raku/roast and Raku has been compliant to this since 6.c which was the first production release. Raku can run Perl5 CPAN modules (Inline::Perl5) and Python modules (In
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line::Python) out of the box and it has deep FFI C NativeCall facilities. There are also a couple of Raku + Rust exemplars such as Dan::Polars (note: I am the author). Raku also has some very nice modules - Red is an ORM that leverages traits to make OO/ORM seamless, Cro is a web server framework that uses concurrent features such as Supplies to enable pluggable middleware (think WebSockets). As to larger adoption, I would say that this is still slow - there are some reputational concerns around the Perl to Raku transition and some points have been made about slow execution speed (although I would say that Raku is no slower than Python / Ruby were at this point in the development curve and of course there is no GIL limitation and many built in features for multi core such as hypers). At the moment, I would say the "killer app" for Raku is the use of Grammars in conjunction with LLMs (language meets language) - take a look at the work of antononcube for some great use cases... https://raku.land/zef:antononcube/LLM::Functions
In OOP is not that bad
athenot·Nov 7, 2018
Finally! Marketing is important, even for a programming language. First, coming up with a new brand name will go a long way to get rid of the conflation with Perl 5. Raku sheds that confusion; even though for now we all know it's Perl 6, this helps the language take a direction of its own and progressively stop the instant association with Perl 5. (This is the opposite of LiveScript which was renamed to JavaScript to mentally associate it with Java during its prime hype days. Either way, it's a tweak on the mental association.) Secondly, the PDF is very well put together. This is much nicer than your typical release notes cobbled together from git commits: it's actually pleasant to read. (Though if you really prefer an HTML version, that's also available: https://github.com/perl6/roast/blob/master/docs/announce/6.d...) Finally, the site h
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ttps://marketing.perl6.org also seems to have other material that's pretty well put together. As someone who is not immersed into the community, this helps promote the feeling that the project is vibrant. (Side-note: they should get a domain to reflect this.) Yes there's waaaay more to a language ecosystem than marketing, but I'm glad to see this effort.
In Raku Perl 6.d [pdf]
Ulti·Nov 7, 2016
A) It's released with a frozen spec and a large test suite for compliance (https://github.com/perl6/roast), with a compiler available that supports a module ecosystem with over 700 modules (http://modules.perl6.org). What's a complete state in your mind? If not this. B) All of the below is core language, not a use or import anywhere required. Error reporting is also handled for you without autodie and friends. Reading from a file: #Efficiently line by line for STDIN for lines() -> $line { $line.say; } #Get everything in RAM right now my $string = "filename".IO.slurp; #Lazy list will do IO as you request into the list my @lines = "filename".IO.lines; #Listing of directories if the path is a directory my @directories = "coolstuff".IO.dir if "coolstuff".IO.d; Playing with dates: #Get a DateTime for right n
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ow my $date = DateTime.now; #Does what it says on the tin say "Yippee" if $date.later(:5years).is-leap-year;
In Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet?
perlgeek·Jan 18, 2015
> And Perl 6? Fourteen years and nothing to show for it ... except a nearly feature-complete [1] compiler [2] and an impressive test suite [3] [1] http://perl6.org/compilers/features [2] http://rakudo.org/ [3] https://github.com/perl6/roast/ > and it'll have to be backwards compatible to all the things violently wrong with Perl 5 Not at all. The whole point about Perl 6 is that it breaks backwards compatibility to fix the things that are wrong with Perl 5.
In Why Perl Didn't Win

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