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A better question is: is anyone planning on moving from Perl to Raku, or from Perl to another language?

At $work, we're sticking with Perl [reasons elsewhere in this thread]. But if we were going start projects in other languages, it would probably be Python or Node.

For personal projects, I'm more interested in Rust than Raku.



Python is fairly stable, node is prone to fast change.

That is, if python isn't using external dependencies.

If you are writing an app for decades long usage, node is probably a bad choice.

Perl, python, will be around... well, I dunno, decades more at least.

But perl? As someone else said, the code you write now, will work 30 years from now. That's its thing, its happy smile.

Imagine, just imagine writing code that doesn't vanish 2 months after you leave a place. Imagine code your great grandkids might tough.




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