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Is Perl 6 out yet? :)

tadzik_ 5y ago
It was renamed as others mentioned, but 6.c (for Christmas) came out almost 6 years ago, on December 24, 2015. https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/christmas-is-here/ https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/christmas-is-he...
ainar-g 5y ago
No, and never will, Perl 7, on the other hand, is in development[1]. [1]: https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/?ref=alian.info https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/?ref=alian.in...
- riedel 5y ago
  Well it is now raku which i guess was a sensible decision at the time. In hindsight it might not have even mattered to add more minors to perl 5
AceJohnny2 5y ago
Perl 6 was renamed to Raku in 2019 [1], when they finally admitted to themselves that it wasn't going to be "the next Perl" https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/pull/89#issuecomment-541628893 https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/pull/89#issuecomment...
- lizmat 5y ago
  There was no admitting to themselves. There was the personal realization that the two factions in what was then the Perl community, would never see eye to eye on what the language called "Perl 6" was. And that all of my efforts of reconciliation, such as the Perl Reunification Summit http://blogs.perl.org/users/gabor_szabo/2013/02/perl-reunification-summit-2012.html http://blogs.perl.org/users/gabor_szabo/2013/02/perl-reunifi... had been in vain. Which lead me to open an issue https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/issues/81 https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/issues/81 which in the end resulted in the rename to the Raku Programming Language https://raku.org https://raku.org .
  - AceJohnny2 5y ago
    Thanks for your perspective. From the outside, it's just "the Perl people", but of course there are lots of factions within a community. I'm sorry about your efforts being in vain. That sounds exhausting and demoralizing. What are you up to now?
    - lizmat 5y ago
      Thank you for asking. Focussing on the Raku Programming Language, being a member of the Raku Steering Council, writing a weekly blog post (https://rakudoweekly.blog/blog-feed/ https://rakudoweekly.blog/blog-feed/), writing blog posts for the Raku Advent Calendar (https://raku-advent.blog/category/2021/ https://raku-advent.blog/category/2021/), creating and maintaining modules (https://raku.land/zef:lizmat https://raku.land/zef:lizmat), doing Rakudo core development (https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/graphs/contributors https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/graphs/contributors), setting up a IRC log server (https://logs.liz.nl https://logs.liz.nl, still in alpha), posting on Reddit (https://reddit.com/r/rakulang https://reddit.com/r/rakulang) tweeting a bit (https://twitter.com/liztormato https://twitter.com/liztormato). The usual, I'd say :-)
rurban 5y ago
Sure, for a short time. Nowadays you have perl11 (5+6=11).

It was renamed as others mentioned, but 6.c (for Christmas) came out almost 6 years ago, on December 24, 2015. https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/christmas-is-here/ https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/christmas-is-he...

ainar-g 5y ago

No, and never will, Perl 7, on the other hand, is in development[1]. [1]: https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/?ref=alian.info https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/?ref=alian.in...

riedel 5y ago
Well it is now raku which i guess was a sensible decision at the time. In hindsight it might not have even mattered to add more minors to perl 5

AceJohnny2 5y ago

Perl 6 was renamed to Raku in 2019 [1], when they finally admitted to themselves that it wasn't going to be "the next Perl" https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/pull/89#issuecomment-541628893 https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/pull/89#issuecomment...

lizmat 5y ago
There was no admitting to themselves. There was the personal realization that the two factions in what was then the Perl community, would never see eye to eye on what the language called "Perl 6" was. And that all of my efforts of reconciliation, such as the Perl Reunification Summit http://blogs.perl.org/users/gabor_szabo/2013/02/perl-reunification-summit-2012.html http://blogs.perl.org/users/gabor_szabo/2013/02/perl-reunifi... had been in vain. Which lead me to open an issue https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/issues/81 https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/issues/81 which in the end resulted in the rename to the Raku Programming Language https://raku.org https://raku.org .
- AceJohnny2 5y ago
  Thanks for your perspective. From the outside, it's just "the Perl people", but of course there are lots of factions within a community. I'm sorry about your efforts being in vain. That sounds exhausting and demoralizing. What are you up to now?
  - lizmat 5y ago
    Thank you for asking. Focussing on the Raku Programming Language, being a member of the Raku Steering Council, writing a weekly blog post (https://rakudoweekly.blog/blog-feed/ https://rakudoweekly.blog/blog-feed/), writing blog posts for the Raku Advent Calendar (https://raku-advent.blog/category/2021/ https://raku-advent.blog/category/2021/), creating and maintaining modules (https://raku.land/zef:lizmat https://raku.land/zef:lizmat), doing Rakudo core development (https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/graphs/contributors https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/graphs/contributors), setting up a IRC log server (https://logs.liz.nl https://logs.liz.nl, still in alpha), posting on Reddit (https://reddit.com/r/rakulang https://reddit.com/r/rakulang) tweeting a bit (https://twitter.com/liztormato https://twitter.com/liztormato). The usual, I'd say :-)

rurban 5y ago

Sure, for a short time. Nowadays you have perl11 (5+6=11).