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Is anyone actually using Perl 6 in production, or planning to? (Serious question, not a troll.)

by cmccabe 14y ago

draegtun 14y ago
Yes. Its limitations are speed and libraries. However each year these continue to improve. So for now I've only used it a couple of times for small scripts but I do plan on writing some modules/libraries in perl6 in the (near) future. Also chromatic (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chromatic http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chromatic) has mentioned about using it for many years in his production systems (however I think he ripped it out recently and replaced it with perl5 solution).
- chromatic 14y ago
  I think he ripped it out recently and replaced it with perl5 solution... January 2011, in fact. I couldn't afford to keep babysitting it to keep it running. I haven't tried since then, so things may be a lot better now.
raiph 14y ago
I'd say that, until this summer, only core hackers claimed to use or even try Perl 6 to get anything business like done. chromatic's comment below is gracious but I think he had a quite unpleasant experience, at least business-wise. And he was a core hacker. The most fun example I know of of someone, other than a core-hacker, planning to use Perl 6 in a production setting, is Sir Robert, as discussed on his 6ing.org blog and introduced at http://www.6ing.org/?p=6 http://www.6ing.org/?p=6 (I would describe myself as an avid Perl 6 watcher. I've been watching it for 12 years. For the last 18 months I've read pretty much the entire days' worth of dialog of the freenode #perl6 IRC channel, nowadays the main hub of Perl 6 activity. And in the last few weeks I've been selecting a subset of log lines representing the gist of each day's activity. For example: http://irclog.perlgeek.de/out.pl?channel=perl6;date=yesterday;summary=1 http://irclog.perlgeek.de/out.pl?channel=perl6;date=yesterda...)

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Is anyone actually using Perl 6 in production, or planning to? (Serious question, not a troll.)

by cmccabe 14y ago

Is anyone actually using Perl 6 in production, or planning to? (Serious question, not a troll.)

draegtun 14y ago
Yes. Its limitations are speed and libraries. However each year these continue to improve. So for now I've only used it a couple of times for small scripts but I do plan on writing some modules/libraries in perl6 in the (near) future. Also chromatic (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chromatic http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chromatic) has mentioned about using it for many years in his production systems (however I think he ripped it out recently and replaced it with perl5 solution).
- chromatic 14y ago
  I think he ripped it out recently and replaced it with perl5 solution... January 2011, in fact. I couldn't afford to keep babysitting it to keep it running. I haven't tried since then, so things may be a lot better now.
raiph 14y ago
I'd say that, until this summer, only core hackers claimed to use or even try Perl 6 to get anything business like done. chromatic's comment below is gracious but I think he had a quite unpleasant experience, at least business-wise. And he was a core hacker. The most fun example I know of of someone, other than a core-hacker, planning to use Perl 6 in a production setting, is Sir Robert, as discussed on his 6ing.org blog and introduced at http://www.6ing.org/?p=6 http://www.6ing.org/?p=6 (I would describe myself as an avid Perl 6 watcher. I've been watching it for 12 years. For the last 18 months I've read pretty much the entire days' worth of dialog of the freenode #perl6 IRC channel, nowadays the main hub of Perl 6 activity. And in the last few weeks I've been selecting a subset of log lines representing the gist of each day's activity. For example: http://irclog.perlgeek.de/out.pl?channel=perl6;date=yesterday;summary=1 http://irclog.perlgeek.de/out.pl?channel=perl6;date=yesterda...)