Day 2: Perl is dead. Long live Perl and Raku

As a Debian user, it fills me with great great great great sorrow to report, Perl is not dead, Perl will never be dead, Perl will, alas, almost certainly, live forever.

Nothing per-se against Perl. But it takes up a bit more space than I want when trying to build small Debian systems. And it feels like a weird piece of critical infrastructure to have, that prevents Debian from developing new & better selves. One must dabble in antiquity to work with core Debian systems. It seems that may never die. And Perl, with it, may itself never die, never be free to move on, to it's next steps.

For me, nothing comes close to perl when manipulating plain text files.

No need to import anything, or thinking about modules, objects and stuff, just write the code to do the task at hand and you are done.

This was a pretty nice article on some of the rationale behind Raku, but I didn't really get this part of the end:

> -Ofun

. Which is apparently a meme for Raku:

> Audrey Tang coined the phrase that Raku is optimized for fun, short -Ofun.

from https://raku.org/fun/.