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Larry Wall announces that Perl6 is ready for production
- coetry 11y agoI'm excited by this, although I feel that the announcement a couple months back about it being released this Christmas carried all the release hype with it haha. I'm glad 6.Christmas is packaged and shipped. Have fun and happy holidays everyone.
- pcunite 11y agoCongratulations Larry. It is a big effort.
- xaduha 11y agoI don't think he's saying that it is ready for production just yet. I don't want to piss on this parade, it's certainly a milestone, but there are problems too.
- cygx 11y agoThe compiler release that is happening today has not been vetted for stability, performance, etc beyond the regular - it's as 'production-ready' as any other of the monthly releases. However, the language definition has been frozen, and Perl6 programs you write after today are supposed to keep working. Basically, it's a promise by the developers to stop breaking stuff willy-nilly.
- xaduha 11y agoSo I gathered. It's an invitation of sorts, for people to start using it, but let's not get ahead of ourselves with this 'production-ready' idea.
- labster 11y agoPrevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10786423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10786423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10787764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10787764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10788786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10788786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10789464 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10789464 Please look and see if there's already a recent thread, everyone. Also, this wasn't the production-readiness announcement, this is an essay on the end of the long Advent, and hopes for the future. That said: yeah, it's happening today.
- dang 11y agoNone of those posts had a significant discussion, so they don't count as dupes on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
- pyrophane 11y agoI expect that the reaction from most of the HN community will be somewhat similar to "why use perl these days when there are so many other more modern choices," but reading the spec there are a lot of nice things in perl6, including the static type system, macro support, and improved patter matching. The syntax still feels a little antiquated, but there is an awful lot to like in this new release, and i expect that so very expressive, not overly opaque code will be written using this.
- zoffix222 11y agoNote that Perl 6 now is really a brand new language. The old Perl continues to chug along in the form of Perl 5 (with yearly releases and feature additions). As such, Perl 6 is a modern language, with all that you can expect to have in one.
- Mithaldu 11y ago> why use perl these days when there are so many other more modern choices I appreciate that you don't mean ill, and in fact wrote your post in support. However i'd like to point out that this sentiment is a little bit uninformed; both about Perl 6 (as it really is a new language) and Perl 5 (as it still keeps putting innovations in production that other languages have yet to catch up on). Some research and asking about either of these comes with a lot of opportunity to be surprised and delighted. :)
- marshray 11y agoPerl6 seems like a fantastic language, but one of the things I'm most interested to see how turn out is the way it is being branded for tweenage girls. NOTE TO DOWNVOTERS: This is not a joke. E.g., http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2015/10/06/the-night-larry-wall-unveiled-perl-6/ http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2015/10/06/the-night-larry-wall-... "the new butterfly logo for Perl 6 'is specifically designed, among other things, to appeal to 7-year-old girls. The Python community has done a much better job appealing to kids with fun stuff.'"
- xaduha 11y ago> This is not a joke. > is specifically designed, among other things, to appeal to 7-year-old girls but this is
- zoffix222 11y agoBut why? Most of tech confs are sausage fests. It's time we start addressing the sex inequality issue in our trade.
- stefantalpalaru 11y agoMaybe because smart people are usually interested in equal opportunity, not equal representation.
- cygx 11y agoCulture matters. It's not enough to have equal opportunity in theory, you also have to make people realize that they have this option as well as make them feel welcome.
- stefantalpalaru 11y agoBut just certain people for certain jobs, right? We don't need to make women feel welcome in the mining community or men in the nursing one, do we?
- mempko 11y agoI was writing some perl 6 just as I saw this.