I saw the talk in the stream and I have to disagree that the decline stabilized at a respectable level, because the community is aging and slowly collapsing. (Sorry for being blunt)
In my (not so humble) opinion does "Perl" need a believable long term strategy to escape it's evolutionary dead end and attract "investment".
But I don't see a strategy I only see traditional tactics.
The first (meta) things are to
- Identify what "Perl" means
- Who the target groups are
- What (used to make) makes Perl great
- Which market developments helped promoting Perl
- How to adapt to environmental changes of the last 25 years
- How to open up development for faster prototyping, evolution and competition of stable solutions
For instance:
- Curtis is talking about inlined functions, what's the difference to the old syntactic macro discussion?
- Function signatures are long overdue, but why the hack do we need to wait for a fast implementation? We could start with a slow one like shown in Function::Parameters °, stabilize the API ASAP and implement the fast version afterwards?
I know some core devs will feel insulted now (sorry!), but evolution means that obsolete features have to die.
Sorry for not spreading "Yes, we can!" slogans, positivity is not my mentality.
I prefer direct speech without meaning it as an insult.
At the same time I take funded critic without being insulted.
°) which has it's foundation in a "macro" mechanism!
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