I love coding in Raku - and I am sure that Gleam is nice too. But I get the feeling that Raku is underappreciated / dismissed by many due to the perl5 / perl6 history. So my thinking is, when I see a new language showcase an example on their website, presumably a carefully chosen snippet that showcases their language at its best, I like to see how Raku compares to that.
You know the take-aways from the comparison are quite instructive:
- do I need to import the io lib? (shouldn't this just be included)
- do I need a main() in every script? (does this rule out one liners like `> raku -e "say 'hi'"`)
- is `io.println` quite an awkward way to spell `print`?
I am not making the case that these are right or wrong language design decisions, but I do think that they are instructive of the goals of the designers. In the case of raku its "batteries included" and a push for "baby raku" to be as gentle on new coders as eg. Python.
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I love coding in Raku - and I am sure that Gleam is nice too. But I get the feeling that Raku is underappreciated / dismissed by many due to the perl5 / perl6 history. So my thinking is, when I see a new language showcase an example on their website, presumably a carefully chosen snippet that showcases their language at its best, I like to see how Raku compares to that.
You know the take-aways from the comparison are quite instructive:
- do I need to import the io lib? (shouldn't this just be included)
- do I need a main() in every script? (does this rule out one liners like `> raku -e "say 'hi'"`)
- is `io.println` quite an awkward way to spell `print`?
I am not making the case that these are right or wrong language design decisions, but I do think that they are instructive of the goals of the designers. In the case of raku its "batteries included" and a push for "baby raku" to be as gentle on new coders as eg. Python.