Ask HN: Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what do you do with it?

Re:Ask HN: Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what d... by brudgers on Monday February 06, 2017 @12:33PM (#13581798)

I considered Perl 6 for a deep dive at the end of 2015...just as it was 'officially released'. The difficulty for me was the state of the documentation ecosystem. No dead-tree books (but for one that was written more than a decade earlier) and a lot of information ad hocked up in blogs and slides. I just felt like I could not really get a handle on it...While googling 'Perl 6' sort of worked, 'Perl 6 how do I <x>' type queries pretty much ignored the "6" and landed me on Perl 5 resources. Perl 6 still only has ~300 StackOverflow questions.

I'm still interested in it, but it just doesn't work for me as an ecosystem yet.

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Re:Ask HN: Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what d... by zoffix222 on Monday February 06, 2017 @12:42PM (#13581913)

FWIW, a huge amount of work has been done to docs in the past year. There's even a dead-tree book available now (https://deeptext.media/perl6-at-a-glance/ ), with 3 more slated to release later this year.

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Re:Ask HN: Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what d... by brudgers on Monday February 06, 2017 @04:13PM (#13584035)

I knew there was work in progress because I've made a similar comment in the past few months. I'm not in hurry which is perhaps in good alignment with Perl 6...A quick look at the book sample suggests it's not probably what I'd look for before starting a deep dive.

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