PrismJS / PrismJS/prism

Perl 6 syntax highlighting support

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Description

Perl 6
Perl 6 is a member of the Perl family of programming languages. While similar to Perl 5, it's a whole different language with different features, compiler and syntax.

Some of the features:

  • Object-oriented programming including generics, roles and multiple dispatch
  • Functional programming primitives, lazy and eager list evaluation, junctions, autothreading and hyperoperators (vector operators)
  • Parallelism, concurrency, and asynchrony including multi-core support
  • Definable grammars for pattern matching and generalized string processing
  • Optional and gradual typing

Additional resources
Official website
Docs
Wikipedia entry
RedMonk Programming Language Rankings - it's a bit to the left and a bit down from the middle of the plot

Thank you for your work on the library! 🙏

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

The issue names no files or tests; start by examining Prism's existing language components and the Perl 6 resources linked in the issue. Add Perl 6 syntax-highlighting support and verify representative Perl 6 syntax, with the language recognized distinctly from Perl 5.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript, perl
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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