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disbot6 <jubilatious1_98524> @rcmlz @antononcube @librasteve I know this is gonna sound kinda selfish, but cracking 4K, 5K, or 10K points on StackExchange would go a long way towards getting people interested in Raku for DevOps: unix.stackexchange.com/users/22773...bilatious1 01:54
<jubilatious1_98524> Right now: 622/629 of my answers on Unix & Linux StackExchange mention "Raku". That's 98.89% 01:56
<antononcube> Hmm... I do not know... My answers on StackExchange do not fair well. Except, if they are posted on MathematicaStackExchange. 02:18
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disbot6 <rcmlz> Or we ask PewDiePie for a video „I switched to Raku (and so should you)“ youtu.be/pVI_smLgTY0 06:56
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disbot6 <simon_sibl> good idea ! 08:22
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disbot6 <jubilatious1_98524> @rcmlz Well...if I've posted 622 Raku one-liners and a substantial proportion (the majority?) have ZERO upvotes, that says to U&L StackExchange that the community isn't supportive. 12:23
<jubilatious1_98524> And if the community isn't supportive, why should anyone else adopt the language?
<antononcube> Exactly that! I can say the same for my Raku packages. Granted, that is easily explained. 12:35
<antononcube> Most people do not reach for Raku in their everyday tasks, and/or, treat Raku programming as hobby. I often read statements proclaiming the latter in some way. 12:38
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disbot6 <antononcube> These, BTW, are understandable.I personally, use Raku in professional settings only for the LLM workflows (very often) and for text processing or grammar-based parsing (ocassionally). 12:41
<antononcube> And, yes, I have/had plans to use Raku for sysadmin tasks. (Very rarely I do.) 12:42
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disbot6 <jubilatious1_98524> weekly: unix.stackexchange.com/a/803066/227738 12:50
<jubilatious1_98524> @antononcube I'd happily upvote you packages if I knew where to do that! 12:52
<antononcube> Let me be more constructive here. I have several related suggestions. 12:53
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disbot6 <antononcube> 1. Make a Raku script -- or package -- that scrapes all answers of StackExchange user in a given community 2. Write and share)a JSON file with DSL examples for doing UNIX tasks with Raku (one liners) 12:55
<antononcube> I assume given the package in 1, generating the JSON in 2 is via LLMs is possible and that hard. 12:56
<antononcube> That JSON file with UNIX-by-Raku DSL examples is going to be included into "DSL::Examples", and, hence, be easily accessible by LLMs. We can run an all-Raku server that gives those relevant Raku one-liners (or multi-liners) upon request. 12:58
<antononcube> Instead of doing 1 or 2, one can just: 3. Try to see are UNIX-by-Raku one-liners easily retrievable -- and correctly adjusted -- using a dedicated prompt with general LLMs. 13:01
<antononcube> This might require significant prompt engineering and lots of experiments.
<antononcube> I hope it is clear about the reason for this suggestions -- if LLMs easily and readily can produce functional Raku code for everyday tasks, then Raku's mindshare would increase. 13:03
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disbot6 <librasteve> note that weekly bot is not working here (unless you get an ack) 14:44
<jubilatious1_98524> @librasteve I got an ack... 14:50
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disbot6 <librasteve> @jubilatious1_98524 - I note that your posts start with "Using Raku (formerly known as Perl_6)" - since Perl is generally considered to be a dead language, I wonder if this is part of the problem - one major benefit of the rename is to cut the immediate link from raku to the perl legacy ... btw I would not judge upvotes as a negative on either raku or your (very nice) one-liners ... more a symptom of (i) wtf is raku 14:51
(dont care), (ii) I do not have raku installed (pain), (iii) looks nice in raku, but I already prefer bash/perl/awk.
<librasteve> <notable6> @librasteve_ Noted! (weekly) <== this is what you are looking for ... I am pretty sure these acks are visible to all 14:53
<librasteve> I think you could write a book! Even better would be a prompt setup where you put in what you want to do and get the raku one-liner back ;-) 14:56
<jubilatious1_98524> @antononcube That solves the problem of adoption but not the problem of advertising. Upvotes are advertising. Sed, AWK, Perl, Ruby have tons of upvotes. So do csvkit, mlr, etc. A naive reader of the StackExchange forum would conclude that mlr is a better choice based upon upvotes--which of course it isn't.
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disbot6 <antononcube> I was not clear - I want to be able to scrape answers of a particular user (say, you) and automatically make DSL examples. 14:58
<librasteve> I 100% agree with that analysis - imo problem is that you (we) are trying to "boil the ocean" ... read this soloway.pbworks.com/f/Crossing-The...LEBOOK.pdf
<jubilatious1_98524> Oops, YOU got an ack... .
<librasteve> ;-) 14:59
<librasteve> the idea is to pick a small number of valuable "bridgehead" applications that are sustainably differentiated 15:00
<antononcube> For the record, I am trying to speed up the coming of the next AI winter, so if @jubilatious1_98524 is trying to boil the ocean, that is very counterproductive. 15:01
<librasteve> www.reddit.com/r/rakulang/comments...exemplars/ is my "starter" to have us as a community work out what these bridgeheads could be ... please do vote (btw Anton, I voted for "LLM Prompt Engineering") did you vote for it? 15:03
<antononcube> @librasteve I have to add the LLM opinions about Raku-for-LLMing in the GitHub page you created. I will do it later today. 15:04
<antononcube> (Forgot to do it yesterday.)
<librasteve> oh and the bridgehead apps should target small niche applications that are early on in their evolution and do not already have well established incumbents (which is where I think we are with unix one-liners, where AWK/SED/Perl/Ruby already have 99% share) 15:05
<librasteve> @antononcube well I will make it anyway as soon as I can find tuits
<librasteve> I am just surprised that it is not winning the poll 15:06
<jubilatious1_98524> Not trying to boil the ocean, trying to become the "Jon Skeet" of Raku! www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/c...tation_in/ 15:07
<antononcube> This discussion makes think my 4th Raku advent post should be about Number theory visualizations, not code highlighting. 15:11
<antononcube> The latter is a "solved problem" for many... 15:12
<antononcube> ... And nobody get Number theory much...
<librasteve> lol - btw Jon Skeet is a great illustration of what I mean, he entered the race early (2008) when there was little competition and was able to establish as the market leader in the short time in the early evolution when there is a chance to break in - after that, the market shares get kinda of frozen (due to the reinforcement effect of upvotes you mention) and the leaders hold their share broadly (bit of a horserace, 15:13
sure ) throughout the rest of the market evolution
<librasteve> as an extreme counter example, if you made a new SO group called rakuonelines.stackoverflow.com, then you would be the #1 (of nothing) 15:14
<antononcube> I was thinking about that -- what does it take to make a new Raku StackExchange group. 15:16
<librasteve> hmmm - would need to be a non-raku topic (that raku can be the leader of) - I have a yen for DSLLMs (Domain Specific Langiages for LLMs) 15:18
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disbot6 <jubilatious1_98524> www.forbes.com/sites/benjaminkomlo...the-ocean/ 18:58
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