Any #RakuLang core hackers want to take up this challenge?
#RegularExpressions #RegExps #RegExes #RegEx https://ruby.social/@gd/110718818730295923
Q. What do we want? A. Raku-compatible Regular Expressions (RCRE™) Q. When do we want it? A. 25 years ago? 😂 #Perl #Raku https://docs.raku.org/language/regexes
Why would anyone spend time on this remark, which is clearly intended as a joke?
If someone in the Ruby community wants to spend time on that, then I'm sure there will be people in the Raku community willing to help. But not before then.
@lizmat I didn’t take it as a joke. I guess you see it as a dig at #Perl6’s long gestation?
I think an “RCRE” library would be cool. #RakuLang rules and grammars are excellent.
I believe it’s more productive to cheerfully disregard haters and, if possible, redirect the topic to advance a positive message to a friendly audience.
#Trolls hate that. 😁
@profoundlynerdy Me too, but I also think it’s a good idea apart from the slightly inaccurate dig.
(OP was a few days early from commemorating the 23rd anniversary of Jon Orwant’s mug-throwing, and a couple months early from the 25th anniversary of Chip Salzenberg’s aborted attempt to rewrite #Perl internals in C++)
@mjgardner I knew it was only a matter of time before other languages ripped off that feature from #Raku. But the better I get to know Raku the clearer it is to me that it's far from a one-trick pony.
It's very malleable and it's getting *faster*.
Mark Gardner
Elizabeth Mattijsen
Profoundly Nerdy