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This post got a lot of discussion on Hacker News that you might find interesting. I’ve been writing a fair bit of Perl 6 lately, and my main takeaway so far is that Perl 6 is fun. Pretty much everything I love in Perl 5 is still part of Perl 6, but almost everything I hate is gone too. $Love - $Hate = $Fun; Here are…
Edit 2021-03-30: Jeremy Mikkola wrote about some closely related topics back in 2017. Edit 2021-03-31: Chris Siebenmann wrote a response to this post that explains exactly how interface values that are nil are typed. It’s more complicated than I thought! I’m not sure I have another Rust & Postgres blog post in me…