2016 - On The Shoulders Of Giants - Damian Conway

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as an entertaining, technically masterful showcase of what Perl 6 can do.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

The Perl and Raku Conference - Greenville, SC 2026

Topic

perl 6 language features

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2021

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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• With all due respect to Larry Wall he shouldn't be a source of info or inspiration when it comes to Perl6. Watch this instead, it's pretty damn great [VIDEO]

• Of course. (For some people.) Here are some videos to give a flavor of the last few years of Perl 6 as it graduated from alpha in 2014 to beta in 2015 to the first ready for production releases of the Rakudo compiler in 2016, …

• Right, yes, for continued fractions / convergent series, floats are almost certainly going to be a complete disaster whereas if only integer division is involved, as is the case with this series, then arbitrary precision rationals are going to be exact, and often sufficiently performant …