24 uses for perl6
- 1. 24 Uses for Perl6 Adventures in Module Land
- 2. Who? ● Simon Proctor ● Senior Developer at Zoopla ● Known as Scimon in most places ● Likes to talk about Perl6 people keep letting me
- 3. Why? There are over 1200 modules in the Perl6 ecosystem as of November 2018* I thought it would be nice to highlight some. * There are some duplicates due to modules existing in both Git and CPAN
- 4. Disclaimer(s) ● This is not a list of “best” modules merely ones I thought interesting ● Modules are listed alphabetically not ranked (with one exception). ● I picked 24 so I have 2 minutes to talk about each. ● Modules with documentation generally got preference. ● I wrote at least 1 of these.
- 5. NativeCall : From the Docs “Call into dynamic libraries that follow the C calling convention”
- 6. NativeCall ● In core but has to be specifically imported ● Set of interfaces to work with dynamic libraries ● Allows for using existing compiled libraries easily in Perl6 code ● https://docs.perl6.org/language/nativecall.html
- 7. App::GPTrixie : From the Docs “A tool to generate NativeCall code from C headers”
- 8. App::GPTrixie ● Give it a C headers file and a selection of options and it will create a basic Native Call wrapper ● The final result will probably need a bit of work to get working but is a good base point ● Allows for faster creation of higher level interfaces to shared libraries ● C++ support on the way.
- 9. App::Mi6 : From the Docs “App::Mi6 - minimal authoring tool for Perl6”
- 10. App::Mi6 ● Module development tool covers : ○ New Module creation ○ Testing ○ Documentation creation ○ Deployment to CPAN ● Highly recommended if you’re doing any module development even just internally
- 11. Bailador : From the Docs “Bailador is a light-weight route-based web application framework for Perl 6”
- 12. Bailador ● A web application framework similar in usage to Dancer or Mojolicious ● Templating using Template::Mojo or Template::Mustache ● Features include : ○ Routing ○ Logging ○ Sitemap creation ○ Sessions ○ Configuration
- 13. BioPerl6 : From the Docs “Collection of Bioinformatics classes, roles, and modules”
- 14. BioPerl6 ● Attempting to redo the BioPerl code in Perl6 ● Currently has the following models implemented : ○ Bio::PrimarySeq ○ Bio::Range ○ Bio::Root ● Looking for people to help ● See also BioInfo
- 15. Cairo : From the Docs “Cairo 2D Graphics library binding for Perl 6”
- 16. Cairo ● Nice to use wrapper around the Cairo image library ● Creates files in a number of formats including ○ PNG ○ SVG ○ PDF
- 17. Color : From the Docs “Format conversion, manipulation, and math operations on colors”
- 18. Color ● Color object with operators to manipulate colours ● Handles different colour formats rgb, rgba, cmyk, hsl, hsv ● Manipulation options includes : ○ darken / lighten ○ desaturate / saturate ○ invert ○ rotate (around HSL colour wheel) ● Include custom operators for Color object manipulation
- 19. Config : From the Docs “A perl 6 library for reading and writing configuration files”
- 20. Config ● Extensible Config file reader and writer ● Available parsers include: ○ JSON ○ TOML ○ YAML
- 21. Cro : From the Docs “Cro is a set of libraries for building reactive distributed systems, lovingly crafted to take advantage of all Perl 6 has to offer.”
- 22. Cro ● Uses Perl6 supplies to manage network requests and responses ● Fully threaded, no need for process management ● Handles out of the box : ○ HTTP/1.1 ○ HTTP/2 ○ HTTPS ○ Websockets ○ ZeroMQ ○ OpenApi 3 ○ Various Authentication schemes including JWT ● For more information check out https://cro.services/docs
- 23. Data::Dump : From the Docs “that's right folks, here's a quicky for your data dump needs. if you have Terminal::ANSIColor installed then the output will be so colorful your eyes might bleed.”
- 24. Data::Dump ● For when just say $_.perl isn’t enough ● Configurable options for : ○ Indentation ○ Colorisation ○ Recursion ○ Skipping Methods in Object ● Will give a dump of the input. ● Objects will dump the methods with signatures as well as attributes.
- 25. DDT : From the Docs “Distribution Development Tool”
- 26. DDT ● Tool for creating modules ● Includes build, test and release stages ● Includes auto-generators for: ○ Classes ○ Roles ○ Package ○ Grammars ○ Modules ○ Tests ● Includes a watch option which can execute a given command
- 27. Desktop::Notify : From the Docs “a set of simple bindings to libnotify using NativeCall”
- 28. Desktop::Notify ● Integrates with the Desktop Notification spec ● Simple interface to allow creating notifications
- 29. Jupyter::Kernel : From the Docs “This is a pure-Perl 6 implementation of a Perl 6 kernel for Jupyter notebooks.”
- 30. Jupyter::Kernel ● A Pure Perl6 implementation of a Jupyter binder ● Allows running Perl6 in a browser and Jupyter binder ● See also Net::Jupyter and iperl6kernel
- 31. Math::Constants : From the Docs A few constants defined in Perl6
- 32. Math::Constants ● A selection of mathematical and physics constants including : ○ Gravitational constant as G ○ Speed of light as c, can also be used as a suffix (eg 3c) ○ Golden Ratio as either phi or φ ● And many more
- 33. Math::Matrix : From the Docs “Create, compare, compute and measure 2D matrices”
- 34. Math::Matrix ● Matrix Mathematics system including: ○ transpose ○ invert ○ negate ○ add ○ multiply ○ dot product ○ tensor product ○ 22 ops ○ 16 boolean properties ○ And more ● In active development
- 35. Object::Delayed : From the Docs “Export subs for lazy object creation”
- 36. Object::Delayed ● Adds two new keywords ● slack ○ Blocks defined with slack are evaluated when required. ○ Useful for lazy attribute / variable creation ● catchup ○ Blocks defined with catchup are evaluated asynchronously ○ If the block hasn’t finished evaluating when it’s required the code will block until it’s ready
- 37. OO::Monitors : From the Docs “A monitor provides per-instance mutual exclusion for objects”
- 38. OO::Monitors ● Adds a new class keyword monitor ● A monitor has locking in place the ensures for a given instance only 1 thread can be in it’s method at a time ● Simplifies thread safe coding practices
- 39. P5built-ins : From the Docs “Implement Perl 5's built-in functions”
- 40. P5built-ins : From the Docs ● Meta module to import Perl6 implementations of Perl5 builtin functions like : ○ abs ○ fc ○ getgrpgid ○ log ○ -e ○ -z ○ __FILE__ ○ __LINE__ ● And many many more 89 functions, 9 file tests and 10 specific terms ● Very handy if you are porting Perl5 code to Perl6
- 41. Red : From the Docs “Red - A WiP ORM for raku”
- 42. Red ● Perl6 ORM that leverages the Perl6 OO system ● Use traits to define relationships between objects and tables ● Currently Work In Progress looking for contributors ● https://github.com/FCO/Red : More info here
- 43. Sparrowdo : From the Docs “Configuration management tool based on sparrow plugins system.”
- 44. Sparrowdo ● DSL based system configuration tool for managing servers ● 28 Plugins currently available in the Perl6 Modules list ● Also includes Sparky a CI system
- 45. Stats : From the Docs “Perl6 statistics modules. Currently has some basic statistics functions revolving around averages.”
- 46. Stats ● Set of functions for doing stats on lists of numbers ○ mean ○ median ○ mode ○ quartiles ○ standard deviation ○ combined summary
- 47. SVG::Plot : From the Docs “a simple 2D chart plotter for Perl 6.”
- 48. SVG::Plot ● Create SVG graphs including : ○ bars ○ stacked bars ○ lines ○ points ○ bubbles ○ pie charts ● Currently looking for documentation
- 49. Terminal::Print : From the Docs “Terminal::Print intends to provide the essential underpinnings of command-line printing, to be the fuel for the fire, so to speak, for libraries which might aim towards 'command-line user interfaces' (CUI), asynchronous monitoring, rogue-like adventures, screensavers, video art, etc.”
- 50. Terminal::Print ● Library for printing to a terminal ● Geared towards fast updating terminal apps ● Looks really good for terminal based games ● Includes a selection of examples demonstrating its capabilities.
- 51. Trait::Env : From the Docs “Trait to set an attribute from an environment variable.”
- 52. Trait::Env ● Allows for simple parsing of Environment variables into Object Attributes or Variables ● Handles: ○ Booleans ○ Ints ○ Strings ○ Defaults ○ Arrays (JSON or separated strings) ○ Hashes (JSON or separated string) ● Simple mapping between variable name and Environment variable name
- 53. Uzu : From the Docs “static site generator with built-in web server, file modification watcher, live reload, i18n, themes, and multi-page support”
- 54. Uzu ● Static site builder with local web server for development ● Multiple templating options ○ Template6 (based on Template::Toolkit) ○ Mustache ○ Markdown (planned not) ● Internationalization built in ● Under development
- 55. Thoughts ● There’s a lot of modules available for Perl6 ● But there’s lots of areas that are ripe for people to write modules for ● A lot of the modules could do with some more people involved ● And some of them could do with a bit more documentation ● NativeCall makes using system libraries really really easy