[Po4a-devel] Changing programming languages [WAS: Re: Alioth is closing, po4a needs a new home very soon]
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018, at 10:06 PM, Martin Quinson wrote:
If you know how to program in python, you could try to come up with
a
prototype of po4a reimplementation. I'm getting the feeling that Perl
is not the right choice anymore. But the prototype may be difficult
because we use the regular expressions so much. Scala would probably
be easier, but I would not say that Scala is a much wiser choice here.
I dunno what Scala will become in the next decade (which may be the
last decade for Perl).
we could use perl6 :P
Seriously, I am not sure that changing languages buys us a lot if we don't think
through the architecture first. One question I would like to have to explore is "How
many of our formats now have canonical or 'really good' processors that we could
leverage instead of writing new parsers?"
regards,
bex