Parallelism, Concurrency, and Asynchrony in Perl 6 / Jonathan Worthington
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters offer it as a good example of what Perl 6 does well and as a way to get started with the language.
What it is
Jonathan Worthington's YAPC Asia 2015 talk on parallelism, concurrency and asynchrony in Perl 6. It covers the language's concurrency features.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2015 to 2016.
What Hacker News said
Recommends keeperofdakeys · 2015-09 · on “Perl 6 hands-on tutorial – A small introduction to a big language [pdf]”
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]
Recommends pplu · 2016-04 · on “Wow, Perl 6 [video]”
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 agumonkey · 2015-10 · on “Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0”
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]