Raku might provide a nice environment for programming language research given it's first class treatment of grammars. You may like a couple of recent talks:

Perl 5 is suitable for any kind of research and tinkering once it gets out of your way, seems based on your intro that you could achieve this state quickly so that you're able to focus on the problems to solve rather than fighting the language. Also, PDL is still alive and kicking.

I don't know much about tools from other languages, but I've always found Perl native data structures to naturally work very will with any kind of nested or linked data structures like trees and graphs. Same applies for text analysis via feature extractions. This strength doesn't extend to image based machine learning because it is currently lacking complete wrapper modules around things like OpenCV. Another area that has really been strong recently is it's foreign function interfacing (alternatives to XS for "simple" things) for shared libraries and inlining other languages.

In reply to Re: What are people doing with Perl 5 and Raku these days? by perlfan
in thread What are people doing with Perl 5 and Raku these days? by Crosis

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