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To what extent is Perl 6 now stable? I was at a LISA conference in December 2011, and watched Tobias Oetiker present the wonders of Perl 6, and though I loved
by thyrsus 9y ago
To what extent is Perl 6 now stable? I was at a LISA conference in December 2011, and watched Tobias Oetiker present the wonders of Perl 6, and though I loved what I saw, something more than a tenth of his examples broke because of recent revisions, whether semantic or to implementation. God bless the language explorers, but my takeaway was "not yet". Is now the time?
- fnj 9y agoI would say perl6 was stable as of the Christmas 2015 release of rakudo.
- Ultimatt 9y agoBeen rock solid stable with respect to the language changing since the spec release over a year ago, especially if you specify that version in your program. I've been tinkering since 2010 and it was increasingly nuts how frequently things like list/string implementation and even syntax would change. So yeah its now a fully released stable language. The thing you might then wait for is performance. But it's getting better rapidly. The Text::CSV benchmark is probably the best to see perf getting there http://tux.nl/Talks/CSV6/speed4.html http://tux.nl/Talks/CSV6/speed4.html