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Parallelism, Concurrency, and Asynchrony in Perl 6 / Jonathan Worthington

6K views · Aug 28, 2015 · 58:08 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2015–2016

Jonathan Worthington's YAPC Asia 2015 talk on parallelism, concurrency and asynchrony in Perl 6. It covers the language's concurrency features.

Why Hacker News points people here: HN commenters offer it as a good example of what Perl 6 does well and as a way to get started with the language.

“I recommend a look at a couple of videos to get started too”HN comment, 2016

What Hacker News said 3

RecommendskeeperofdakeysSep 2015

“There are also definitely some good things coming out of perl 6”

Example of good things coming out of Perl 6.

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As someone who is relatively new to perl, I think perl 6 is definitely a positive direction. It removes lots of inconsistencies, while providing a clean base for future expansion. For something like the sigils, what's more important - to know that a variable is a scalar, or that it's some kind of hash/array? The second would definitely be less confusing when learning the language. There are also definitely some good things coming out of perl 6, like this this video

in “Perl 6 hands-on tutorial – A small introduction to a big language [pdf]” · view on HN
RecommendsppluApr 2016

“I recommend a look at a couple of videos to get started too”

Video to get started with Perl 6.

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You can go to link , download it, and play with it now :) I recommend a look at a couple of videos to get started too: link this video

Cites itagumonkeyOct 2015

Additional Perl 6 talk offered alongside another link.

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The typing and grammar mechanism aren't common, it may influence other languages. Also, Perl managed to survive even without mainstream relevance so the community will probably keep enjoying it. ps: I found this talk pretty convincing about pragmatism link also: this video

in “Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0” · view on HN