What Happened to Perl 7?

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  1. App-perlbrew

    Manage perl installations in your $HOME

    >> I know many experienced Unix people hate this trend, but there’s a reason some of the most actively evolving language ecosystems install more and more of their binaries into the user’s home directory. Maybe that’s already the case for Perl, I wouldn’t know.

    There's https://perlbrew.pl/ and there's cpanm with "use lib".

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  3. ccheck

    Simple, easy to use, minimal consistency checker (hasher) for file archives.

    Perl is very well suited for certain tasks (not large software systems, but programs that process data). It is also one of very few languages/ecosystems where you can expect your code to work after >10 years. This is why I sometimes use it, for example my fs consistency checker (https://github.com/jwr/ccheck) was written in Perl specifically because it's a long-term tool and I would like to be able to run it on any system in 15 years.

    Compare this long-term approach with the fires in Python or (heaven forbid) Node ecosystems, where things break all the time.

  4. roast

    🦋 Raku test suite

    Perl6 is now of course Rakulang. https://raku.org/

    The folks responsible for that are still growing and improving their own ecosystem. It's a Perl-family language but it's different enough that they stepped away from the name so both Perl and Raku can flourish.

  5. plenv

    Perl binary manager

  6. berrybrew

    Perlbrew for Windows! (by stevieb9)

  7. voidvault

    Bootstrap Void with FDE

    > Perl 6 was treated as the successor of Perl 5 -- and that was the mistake. It meant Perl 5 started dying,

    Perl 6 took a long time to make, but how much did that matter? What was Perl going to do about Rails, Clojure, Go, Rust, JS/TS, and more? The world of programming languages used to be a lot smaller than it is today.

    > Perl 6 had a new different syntax.

    Inline::Perl5 [3] allows running legacy Perl 5 code in Perl 6 codebases.

    [1]: https://docs.raku.org/language/5to6-nutshell#Regular_express...

    [2]: https://github.com/atweiden/voidvault

    [3]: https://github.com/niner/Inline-Perl5

  8. Inline-Perl5

    Use Perl 5 code in a Raku program

    > Perl 6 was treated as the successor of Perl 5 -- and that was the mistake. It meant Perl 5 started dying,

    Perl 6 took a long time to make, but how much did that matter? What was Perl going to do about Rails, Clojure, Go, Rust, JS/TS, and more? The world of programming languages used to be a lot smaller than it is today.

    > Perl 6 had a new different syntax.

    Inline::Perl5 [3] allows running legacy Perl 5 code in Perl 6 codebases.

    [1]: https://docs.raku.org/language/5to6-nutshell#Regular_express...

    [2]: https://github.com/atweiden/voidvault

    [3]: https://github.com/niner/Inline-Perl5

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