THE VIDEO SHELF · perl 6 concurrency
Parallelism, Concurrency, and Asynchrony in Perl 6 / Jonathan Worthington
Jonathan Worthington's YAPC Asia 2015 talk on parallelism, concurrency and asynchrony in Perl 6. It covers the language's concurrency features.
Why HN readers recommended 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.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- yapcasia
- Topic
- perl 6 concurrency
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2016
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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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 …
keeperofdakeys on Hacker News · 2015-09
In Perl 6 hands-on tutorial – A small introduction to a big language [pdf]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] [VIDEO]
pplu on Hacker News · 2016-04
In Wow, Perl 6 [video]
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