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Re:Ask HN: Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what d... by ribasushi on Monday February 06, 2017 @12:14PM (#13581582)
That's the thing - what OP said is exactly the case. Perl5 is an order of magnitude closer to ES6 than it is to Rakudo.
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Re:Ask HN: Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what d... by labster on Monday February 06, 2017 @01:49PM (#13582650)
ES6 is a language specification and Rakudo is software. When Perl is written in uppercase it usually means the language, so what you said is true but not informative.
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