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Parallelism, Concurrency, and Asynchrony in Perl 6 / Jonathan Worthington

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Python, Ruby & scripting languagesProgramming language design

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.

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.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2016

What HN commenters said

  1. “There are also definitely some good things coming out of perl 6”

    Example of good things coming out of Perl 6.

    keeperofdakeys, 2015-09 · Recommendation · in “Perl 6 hands-on tutorial – A small introduction to a big language [pdf]”

  2. “I recommend a look at a couple of videos to get started too”

    Video to get started with Perl 6.

    pplu, 2016-04 · Recommendation · in “Wow, Perl 6 [video]”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: perl 6, concurrency, parallelism, asynchrony, jonathan worthington

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