r/perl • u/oalders 🐪🥇white camel award • 13d ago

NVIDIA Donates $12,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation

https://www.perl.com/article/nvidia-donates-12-000-to-the-perl-and-raku-foundation/
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u/scottchiefbaker 🐪 cpan author 13d ago

Wow! Go Nvidia.

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u/leonerduk 🐪 core contributor 12d ago

Do we have any detail surrounding the context of the donation? Was there any specific restrictions or suggestions made on what it should be spent on? The announcement linked above goes on to talk about a bunch of Gen-AI or LLM projects, but it isn't clear that that is in any way related to the actual donation, or simply "hey, speaking of NVIDIA" flavour.

I for one would be quite disappointed if it turned out this donation was in any way restricted to only being used for Gen-AI or LLM adjacent projects.

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u/perigrin 🐪🥇conference nerd 12d ago

As far as I am aware there were no restrictions that it be limited to LLM/Gen-AI adjacent projects. I am pretty sure that was just “hey speaking of NVIDIA” flavor.

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u/oalders 🐪🥇white camel award 12d ago

This . I've got to fill the space somehow. 2 lines about a donation are not super interesting.

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u/leonerduk 🐪 core contributor 11d ago

Cool - that's good to hear at least :)

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u/meru_es 13d ago

That’s awesome

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u/yomikins 13d ago

Nice! Thanks Nvidia.

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u/nurturethevibe 🐪 cpan author 11d ago

Very nice to see from NVIDIA.

I have some Raku modules for LLM usage, LLM::Agent and LLM::Data::Inference as well as MCP::Client and MCP::Server.

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u/prince_jyggalag 13d ago

Isn't that basically pennies for them? Still appreciate the gesture tho.

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u/gbacon 13d ago

This ungrateful comment is a poor representation of the community.

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u/__chicolismo__ 13d ago

How would you know? 

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u/R2robot 13d ago

Dug up from between their sofa cushions.

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u/bonkly68 🐪 cpan author 13d ago

I think it will be the trend as more and more companies recognize how important perl is to their software stack.