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What kind of project do you have in mind? One of my client projects needs an object serialization and indexing mechanism, a (stronger) HTTP library, a file-bas

What kind of project do you have in mind? One of my client projects needs an object serialization and indexing mechanism, a (stronger) HTTP library, a file-based cache, and a wrappers for a couple of POSIX functions for me to port it from Perl 5 to Perl 6. As it's a project for a client, the opportunity cost for writing those libraries themselves has been too high to justify porting to Perl 6.

irahul 16y ago
But won't these concerns arise in almost all of the projects? The lack of libraries? It rules out doing web based projects - no framework(I don't think catalyst for perl6 is there yet), no supporting libraries(esoteric orm, multiple db backends, playing well with other components viz. 0mq, gearman, memcache etc). I think Perl 6 in the current incarnation is only suited for some algorithmic, stand-alone mini-projects which are basically raw code and don't depend on external components. What's the plan for cpan for Perl 6? cpan6.org is dead. Google is at loss of words when asked about it. I found only 2 relevant results - 1 was about should perl 6 use cpan and other was a stack overflow thread. I found this modules page - http://modules.perl6.org/ http://modules.perl6.org/, but the coverage is severely limiting. I wanted to put perl 6 in practice but looks like it isn't happening in the coming 2 years. I can work on mathematical/algorithmic problems, but then most of the algorithmic problems I need to solve need to be integrated in production code and hence, I would rather solve it in python(or whatever the codebase is) rather than playing with perl 6. As of now, the cons outnumber the pros, but for sure, perl6 is going to have an interesting future.
- chromatic 16y ago
  I wanted to put perl 6 in practice but looks like it isn't happening in the coming 2 years. I don't see the connection between "Perl 6 doesn't have every module Perl 5 has right now" and "I can't use this for two years". Perl 5 doesn't have every library I need (and certainly didn't when I started using it 12 years ago). Now you can use some Perl 5 modules from Rakudo right now, and people are writing more Perl 6 modules (and Perl 6 has as core language features many of the modules used in modern Perl 5). The question is what you need for any specific project.

irahul 16y ago

But won't these concerns arise in almost all of the projects? The lack of libraries? It rules out doing web based projects - no framework(I don't think catalyst for perl6 is there yet), no supporting libraries(esoteric orm, multiple db backends, playing well with other components viz. 0mq, gearman, memcache etc). I think Perl 6 in the current incarnation is only suited for some algorithmic, stand-alone mini-projects which are basically raw code and don't depend on external components. What's the plan for cpan for Perl 6? cpan6.org is dead. Google is at loss of words when asked about it. I found only 2 relevant results - 1 was about should perl 6 use cpan and other was a stack overflow thread. I found this modules page - http://modules.perl6.org/ http://modules.perl6.org/, but the coverage is severely limiting. I wanted to put perl 6 in practice but looks like it isn't happening in the coming 2 years. I can work on mathematical/algorithmic problems, but then most of the algorithmic problems I need to solve need to be integrated in production code and hence, I would rather solve it in python(or whatever the codebase is) rather than playing with perl 6. As of now, the cons outnumber the pros, but for sure, perl6 is going to have an interesting future.

chromatic 16y ago
I wanted to put perl 6 in practice but looks like it isn't happening in the coming 2 years. I don't see the connection between "Perl 6 doesn't have every module Perl 5 has right now" and "I can't use this for two years". Perl 5 doesn't have every library I need (and certainly didn't when I started using it 12 years ago). Now you can use some Perl 5 modules from Rakudo right now, and people are writing more Perl 6 modules (and Perl 6 has as core language features many of the modules used in modern Perl 5). The question is what you need for any specific project.