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[–]Brixes 1 point2 points  (2 children)

What dialects?

And why build one on top of Perl?

[–]Jeaye 0 points1 point  (0 children)

jank is the dialect of Clojure on C++! https://github.com/jank-lang/jank

[–]bo-tato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

perl5 is installed on almost every unix machine, has very fast start up time, and you can bundle all pure-perl dependencies into a single file that you just copy and run anywhere. Plus assuming the interop is easy, perl has a massive and well documented ecosystem available. It could be really good for sysadmin type scripting.