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Rakudo Star (a "usable Perl 6") to be released by July 29

69 points by stefano 16y ago

avar 16y ago
Here's a plan on the Rakudo GitHub wiki for what's going into the release: http://wiki.github.com/rakudo/rakudo/whats-going-into-rakudo http://wiki.github.com/rakudo/rakudo/whats-going-into-rakudo And here's the number of tests it's passing now: http://rakudo.org/status http://rakudo.org/status Rakudo's still slow and doesn't have a lot of modules written for it, but this release is meant to address that by getting more users. It's considered good enough at this point to write normal programs in it.
- windsurfer 16y ago
  What is considered normal? Are there database and graphical libraries available yet?
  - chromatic 16y ago
    There's a DBI library and an SVG library. See Proto for more: http://proto.perl6.org/ http://proto.perl6.org/
- donaldc 16y ago
  The real question to me is not whether it's slow or fast, but whether those parts of Perl 6 that are included in Rakudo Star are stable, in terms of the language itself. I see no point in looking at any of this until I can feel secure that the parts of the Perl 6 language being included in such a release are finalized, and won't be changed in six months or a year.
  - chromatic 16y ago
    Rakudo Star is not for you then. The point of Rakudo Star is for people who aren't likely to run Rakudo from Git and Parrot from Subversion to write useful programs and give the designers and implementors feedback on what Rakudo and Perl 6 need to be even better.
staunch 16y ago
Can someone give a link to some code that will run under Rakudo Star? I'd love to start writing some of my one-off scripts in Perl6.
- colomon 16y ago
  What sort of thing are you looking for? The current central repository for Perl 6 projects -- http://proto.perl6.org/ http://proto.perl6.org/ -- has a number of cool projects, but they don't necessarily all run under the current Rakudo, as there have been two waves of major changes in the last six months, and not everyone has caught up.

69 points by stefano 16y ago

avar 16y ago

Here's a plan on the Rakudo GitHub wiki for what's going into the release: http://wiki.github.com/rakudo/rakudo/whats-going-into-rakudo http://wiki.github.com/rakudo/rakudo/whats-going-into-rakudo And here's the number of tests it's passing now: http://rakudo.org/status http://rakudo.org/status Rakudo's still slow and doesn't have a lot of modules written for it, but this release is meant to address that by getting more users. It's considered good enough at this point to write normal programs in it.

windsurfer 16y ago
What is considered normal? Are there database and graphical libraries available yet?
- chromatic 16y ago
  There's a DBI library and an SVG library. See Proto for more: http://proto.perl6.org/ http://proto.perl6.org/
donaldc 16y ago
The real question to me is not whether it's slow or fast, but whether those parts of Perl 6 that are included in Rakudo Star are stable, in terms of the language itself. I see no point in looking at any of this until I can feel secure that the parts of the Perl 6 language being included in such a release are finalized, and won't be changed in six months or a year.
- chromatic 16y ago
  Rakudo Star is not for you then. The point of Rakudo Star is for people who aren't likely to run Rakudo from Git and Parrot from Subversion to write useful programs and give the designers and implementors feedback on what Rakudo and Perl 6 need to be even better.

staunch 16y ago

Can someone give a link to some code that will run under Rakudo Star? I'd love to start writing some of my one-off scripts in Perl6.

colomon 16y ago
What sort of thing are you looking for? The current central repository for Perl 6 projects -- http://proto.perl6.org/ http://proto.perl6.org/ -- has a number of cool projects, but they don't necessarily all run under the current Rakudo, as there have been two waves of major changes in the last six months, and not everyone has caught up.