Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet?

Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by berntb on Monday November 07, 2016 @04:09AM (#12889759)

>> the libraries you have come to depend on aren't there

See e.g. Inline::Perl5 and Inline::Python (don't know how mature that is).

>> For a new language to get adoption

I'm not really that knowledgeable right now, but how many weeks have Perl 6 (the language, not the libraries) had an implementation ready for production? :-)

Edit: Thanks, Ulti. Close to 50 weeks. Good work of the implementors. :-)

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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by Ulti on Monday November 07, 2016 @05:01AM (#12889952)

Since Christmas 2015 was the "production" release of the language specification. Hence the 6.C version number, the C stands for Christmas. Rakudo around about now implements that feature set in a stable way. The last year has mostly been optimisation work in the runtime and VM. The whole thing is about as stable and production worth as Swift. That is to say features do still change, but not the ones already specced as 6.C

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