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bolangi • today at 12:26 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Nice that perl got a mention, but it is not especially nuanced. Raku is not a fork of perl, it's a new language. That is why it got a new name. It was intended to be backward compatible, just didn't work out that way. However, Raku's FFI lets Raku code call into perl, and vice versa.


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account42 • today at 12:35 PM

Raku was originally called Perl 6 though. It is a fork, not an unrelated new language.

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