Comment by librasteve 1 month ago Suggest you take a look at https://raku.org for a strongly (but gradual) typed scripting language. 10 comments librasteve Reply dnautics 1 month ago that's just perl with a new coat of paint fn-mote 1 month ago Perl 5 does not have types, as far as I know.I’m taking the GP seriously instead of dismissing it. Raku looks like more fun than nushell tbh. librasteve 1 month ago Raku types are a bit thicker than paint https://gist.github.com/raiph/849a4a9d8875542fb86df2b2eda892... 1 reply → rurban 1 month ago It has. They are just poorly supported and disliked. DonHopkins 1 month ago Lead paint with asbestos sprinkles and radium racing stripes! ;) radiator 1 month ago it is so much slower to start than perl, that you don't want to run it for quick one-off tasks librasteve 25 days ago ~ > time perl -e '' perl -e '' 0.01s user 0.01s system 10% cpu 0.179 total ~ > time raku -e '' raku -e '' 0.09s user 0.04s system 53% cpu 0.232 total ~ > librasteve 1 month ago well waiting for Raku (formerly perl6) to be built was like watching paint dry DonHopkins 1 month ago They should have named it Godot. ;) But now that name is taken.
dnautics 1 month ago that's just perl with a new coat of paint fn-mote 1 month ago Perl 5 does not have types, as far as I know.I’m taking the GP seriously instead of dismissing it. Raku looks like more fun than nushell tbh. librasteve 1 month ago Raku types are a bit thicker than paint https://gist.github.com/raiph/849a4a9d8875542fb86df2b2eda892... 1 reply → rurban 1 month ago It has. They are just poorly supported and disliked. DonHopkins 1 month ago Lead paint with asbestos sprinkles and radium racing stripes! ;) radiator 1 month ago it is so much slower to start than perl, that you don't want to run it for quick one-off tasks librasteve 25 days ago ~ > time perl -e '' perl -e '' 0.01s user 0.01s system 10% cpu 0.179 total ~ > time raku -e '' raku -e '' 0.09s user 0.04s system 53% cpu 0.232 total ~ > librasteve 1 month ago well waiting for Raku (formerly perl6) to be built was like watching paint dry DonHopkins 1 month ago They should have named it Godot. ;) But now that name is taken.
fn-mote 1 month ago Perl 5 does not have types, as far as I know.I’m taking the GP seriously instead of dismissing it. Raku looks like more fun than nushell tbh. librasteve 1 month ago Raku types are a bit thicker than paint https://gist.github.com/raiph/849a4a9d8875542fb86df2b2eda892... 1 reply → rurban 1 month ago It has. They are just poorly supported and disliked.
librasteve 1 month ago Raku types are a bit thicker than paint https://gist.github.com/raiph/849a4a9d8875542fb86df2b2eda892... 1 reply →
radiator 1 month ago it is so much slower to start than perl, that you don't want to run it for quick one-off tasks librasteve 25 days ago ~ > time perl -e '' perl -e '' 0.01s user 0.01s system 10% cpu 0.179 total ~ > time raku -e '' raku -e '' 0.09s user 0.04s system 53% cpu 0.232 total ~ >
librasteve 25 days ago ~ > time perl -e '' perl -e '' 0.01s user 0.01s system 10% cpu 0.179 total ~ > time raku -e '' raku -e '' 0.09s user 0.04s system 53% cpu 0.232 total ~ >
librasteve 1 month ago well waiting for Raku (formerly perl6) to be built was like watching paint dry DonHopkins 1 month ago They should have named it Godot. ;) But now that name is taken.
that's just perl with a new coat of paint
Perl 5 does not have types, as far as I know.
I’m taking the GP seriously instead of dismissing it. Raku looks like more fun than nushell tbh.
Raku types are a bit thicker than paint https://gist.github.com/raiph/849a4a9d8875542fb86df2b2eda892...
1 reply →
It has. They are just poorly supported and disliked.
Lead paint with asbestos sprinkles and radium racing stripes! ;)
it is so much slower to start than perl, that you don't want to run it for quick one-off tasks
well waiting for Raku (formerly perl6) to be built was like watching paint dry
They should have named it Godot. ;) But now that name is taken.