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in reply to Re^4: It has been suggested to rename Perl 6 in order to boost its marketing potential. Which name would you prefer?
in thread It has been suggested to rename Perl 6 in order to boost its marketing potential. Which name would you prefer?

The funnier number is the 300+ in irc.

That made me curious about Slack. The first search result I found for "Perl 6 Slack" shows 68 people in 11 channels, while the first search result not about writing bots for "Python programming Slack" shows 14,557 members.

Now there's an obvious difference between "number of people in channels" and "number of members of a community", but I'm not sure that IRC is skating to where the puck is here.

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Re^6: It has been suggested to rename Perl 6 in order to boost its marketing potential. Which name would you prefer?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 15, 2018 at 21:10 UTC

    I cannot respond in any meaningful way to this, as I don't know what 'Slack' is?

    And having re-read your post several times, I'm still unsure whether it is in support or contrary to my post?


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      Slack's a proprietary chat system a lot like IRC but with a graphical interface that's made it more popular with less technical folks as well as people who didn't grow up with IRC.

      I'm generally agreeing with you here.