Reminds me of years ago when a new developer (switching from C++ to #Perl) joined a team I was on. We asked him if he preferred #emacs or #vim. He replied, "nano."
TFW rewriting the clipboard manager from #Raku to #Perl saved 20 times of memory :blobfoxnotlikethis: The service does literally nothing most of the time waiting for an event and keeps all states in the file system and Rakudo still manages to eat up a whooping 168 MB of RAM :floofWoozy: I really like the language but its reference (and now also only) implementation’s performance (or lack thereof) really stops me from keep using it.
BTW, fun fact: if you chop a string in Raku and Perl then concatenate their results together you get the original one :ym_rofl:
@metacpan I’m sorry, but messages addressed to @Perl are no longer reposted to the 492 members of the Perl community that followed it on the #fediverse. There is no longer any point in tagging posts with that address as the owner of https://chirp.social shut it down at the end of February.
You should continue to use the #Perl hashtag, though!
@DrHyde@metacpan@perl I have been following @tag@relay.fedi.buzz for a while to see #Perl hashtagged posts that don’t otherwise make it to my #Mastodon instance.
Unfortunately, last September’s Mastodon 4.2.0 release broke the underlying #FediBuzz service’s basic methodology (which was a questionable kludge.) The latter’s developer, @astro, has been trying to adapt and support more traditional #ActivityPub#relay operation. I don’t know how that’s progressed over the past several months.
Most of the MetaCPAN core devs will be attending the Perl Toolchain Summit in Lisbon next month. We plan to get a lot of work done. There is still time to come on board as a sponsor.
Update Debian machine
It now has Python 3.11
The IRC bot running on this server now fails to start
And this is why I love #Perl more than I will ever be able to love #Python. Especially in the 3.x series, Python stuff just breaks randomly after some updates. Its ridiculous how unreliable it is.
Ever been staying at a hotel and gotten annoyed that you always have to open a browser to log in for wireless access? Yup, me too. A recent instance was particularly frustrating and I had to pull out my favourite Swiss Army chainsaw in order to make my life a bit easier.
@chessert Apparently not everyone was as tuned in as you were. At #Perl v5.10’s introduction I agreed with https://mastodon.social/@gruber/112125241870511100 that given and when sure looked nice and readable, and the smartmatch ~~ magic was inspired by what was then optimistically called #Perl6, so it had to be okay, right?
I never got around to doing enough git blame code archaeology to determine Patient Zero while I was at that doomed company that went all-in.
dear @leonerd and the rest of the #perl community thank you very much for exiftool sadly the images did not have the exif information I wanted but it was quick to find out.
All four of the Digital Eclipse Arcade games are discounted as part of the Steam Spring Sale -- satisfying single-screen throwbacks that play great on Steam Deck as well as home arcade cabinets. Get the bundle for 20% off:
We cover "scripting" vs. "programming" vs. software engineering, choosing the right tool for the job, extol the virtues of #perl's taint checking, lambast "clever" code, and frequently refer to F. Brooks and the Mythical Man-Month. (Yes, we could spend a whole semester on this topic, too.)