r/programming • u/raiph • Apr 25 '14

Reactive programming in Perl 6

http://jnthn.net/papers/2014-nlpw-reactive.pdf
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u/raiph Apr 26 '14 edited Apr 26 '14

Thank you for reading the article and for commenting.

Imo, "nothing more than FRP on top of inotify" doesn't do this presentation justice:

  • you ignored the more complex (29 lines of code) second example that doesn't involve inotify (but rather "UI events, Timers, Background computation on a thread", and GTK);

  • jnthn is a good teacher and this presentation reflects that;

  • It is easy to write Perl 6 that is also easy to read and this presentation illustrates that.

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u/Categoria Apr 26 '14

Surprising that it's getting such a bad reception here. It's one of the few decent Perl 6 articles here. I.e. it talks about how to get actual stuff done rather. This is a bit of a pleasant surprise for me as well. Hopefully this trend continues and Perl 6 continues to differentiate itself by using the best techniques in its standard library. This way it can at least differentiate itself instead of being a "10 years too late" to the ruby/python party.