For what reason a Raptor was chosen then: what is the history, the meaning under the choice?
As I understand it, it's because Perl is often thought of as a dinosaur of a programming language. Matt Trout (creator of Moo, DBIx::Class, Role::Tiny, etc) came up with the idea to lean into it. Yes, Perl is like a dinosaur—and dinosaurs are awesome and powerful. The actual art is by Sebastian Riedel (creator of Mojolicious, Catalyst, etc).
I remember so kind of "Perl is still very much alive" baseline or something associated to the Raptor. So this would be like "ok, we know, it's supposed to be extinct, but LOOK IT'S STILL ALIVE OH MY..."
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As I understand it, it's because Perl is often thought of as a dinosaur of a programming language. Matt Trout (creator of Moo, DBIx::Class, Role::Tiny, etc) came up with the idea to lean into it. Yes, Perl is like a dinosaur—and dinosaurs are awesome and powerful. The actual art is by Sebastian Riedel (creator of Mojolicious, Catalyst, etc).
I remember so kind of "Perl is still very much alive" baseline or something associated to the Raptor. So this would be like "ok, we know, it's supposed to be extinct, but LOOK IT'S STILL ALIVE OH MY..."