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Larry Wall is speaking at the San Francisco Perl Mongers meeting this evening. Along with most of my team at work, my wife and I are going to attend this event
by Diederich 11y ago
Larry Wall is speaking at the San Francisco Perl Mongers meeting this evening. Along with most of my team at work, my wife and I are going to attend this event.
The biggest of the three big items remaining in Perl 6 development before GA has been completed, give or take. (The Great List Refactor) I'm not 100% sure of the status of the other two, but I think the Unicode stuff is also well on its way as well.
My prediction is that he will be announcing some kind of Perl 6 1.0 pre-release this evening.
Given that Perl 5 has been helping me pay my bills for the past 22 years, I'm more than a little excited!
- untothebreach 11y agoIs it usable, performance-wise, in production yet? The company I work for (also a perl 5 shop) gave MoarVM a try about a year ago with a toy application, and it was just unusably slow. The task was just receiving some JSON on a TCP socket, decoding it, and sending a static response, but the round trip time was large enough that the server that made the request marked the transaction as 'timed-out' every time. (This is a task that we can do with perl 5 and still have time left over)
- Diederich 11y agoMoar has come light-years over the past 12 months. It very well might be! Give it another try. I recall a few months ago that a hand full of the benchmarks on JVM were actually running faster than Perl 5.latest, though most were slower. Perl 6 is far, far more optimizable than Perl 5, and also most similar languages. The long-term focus on correct first is finally paying off.
- untothebreach 11y agoThanks for the info, I will give it another try.