Perl 6 Gets Beta Compiler, Modules and an Advent Calendar (thenewstack.io)

Posted by timothy on Friday December 4, 2015 @01:20PM from the thanks-larry dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A "useful and usable distribution of Perl 6" was released Saturday, a new beta version of the Rakudo compiler to support the coming production release this Christmas. And there's already 467 Perl 6 modules on the new archive at proto.perl6.org (though Perl 6 will also be able to load modules written in other languages). "Perl has a huge community of avid users that continues to thrive in spite of detractors," says one developer, pointing to new applications for big data, in a new article reporting that over one million people have downloaded ActivePerl's own Perl distribution just in 2015. And this week also saw the release of two new "Advent Calendars" of programming tips, one for Perl 5 and one for Perl 6.

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What a fucking childish logo! by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-04 14:01 · Score: 0, Informative

The Perl 6 logo is unbelievably childish. Even if Perl 6 were actually usable, I couldn't suggest it to my boss or colleagues. They'd take one look at the Perl 6 home page, see the immature logo, burst out laughing, and think I was joshing them, even if I was completely serious! I thought the decade of failure was bad enough, but seeing that logo makes things even worse!