Bravo Zulu, everyone, and a well-earned rest for Jonathan. The forecast is for scattered scepticism, with occasional outbreaks of trolls, but there should be some positive reaction from the rest of world.
On 12/25/15, Will Coleda <w...@coleda.com> wrote: > On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I’m proud to announce the > Christmas release (December 2015) of Rakudo Perl 6 #94 “коледа”. Rakudo > is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Moar Virtual Machine[^1] and the > Java Virtual Machine. > > This is the Christmas release of Rakudo Perl 6. This version of the > compiler > targets the v6.c “Christmas” specification of the Perl 6 language. The > Perl 6 community has been working toward this release over the last 15 > years. > Together, we've built a language that: > > + Retains the core values of Perl: expressiveness, getting the job done, > taking influences from natural language, and pushing the boundaries of > language design > + Has clean, modern syntax, rooted in familiar constructs but revisiting > and revising the things that needed it > + Is truly multi-paradigm, enabling elegant object-oriented, functional, > procedural, and concurrent programming > + Serves as a great glue language, allowing for easy calling of C/C++ > (using NativeCall) and staying compatible with Perl 5 (via > Inline::Perl5). > + Provides composable constructs for working with asynchronous data and > parallel computations > + Dramatically reforms and sets a new standard in regex syntax, which > scales up to full grammars - powerful enough to parse Perl 6 itself > + Has outstanding Unicode support, with strings working at grapheme level > + Values lexical scoping and encapsulation, enabling easy refactoring > + Is extensible through meta-object programming, user-defined operators, > and traits > > The tag for this release is “коледа”[^2], a slavic word for an ancient > winter > festival that has been incorporated into Christmas. We hope you join us > in our celebration of getting our Christmas release shipped! > > While we are extremely happy to ship an official Perl 6 release, this is > not > the end of Rakudo’s development. We will continue to ship monthly releases, > which will continue to improve performance and our user’s experience. We’ll > also continue our work on the specification, with feedback from the > community. > > To be clear on that point, this Rakudo release is not considered the > primary > deliverable for this Christmas; it is the language specification, known > as "roast" (Repository Of All Spec Tests), that is considered the primary > deliverable. The specification tests that define this 6.c version[^3] of > the > language are now frozen, and we hope it will be quite some time before we > feel obligated to define a 6.d (Diwali) version of the language. > > This Rakudo release targets those tests (over 120 thousand of them), and > passes > them all on at least some architectures when the moon is in the right > phase. > But Rakudo itself is not frozen. There is still plenty of work ahead for us > to > improve speed, portability, and stability. Do not expect the level of > perfection that you see in established products. This is essentially a .0 > release of a compiler. We do not claim an absence of bugs or > instabilities. > We do not claim the documentation is complete. We do not claim portability > to > many architectures. We do not claim that all downstream software will work > correctly. Think of it as a first kernel release, and now we get to build > and > port various distributions based around that kernel. > > What we do claim is that you now have a stable language specification, and > you can enjoy getting some stuff done with Perl 6 without us breaking it > every > month—as long as you stick to the features that are actually tested in the > test suite, that is. Please note that any “feature” you discover that is > not tested in the test suite is considered fair game for change without > notice. > > Have the appropriate amount of fun! > > The tarball for this release is available from > <http://rakudo.org/downloads/rakudo/>. > > Please note: This announcement is not for the Rakudo Star > distribution[^4] --- it’s announcing a new release of the compiler > and the specification. For the latest Rakudo Star release, see > <http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/>. A Christmas-based version will > be available soon. > > In addition to being our Christmas release, this is yet another > monthly compiler release; Some of the changes that are new in > release are outlined below: > > New in 2015.12: > + Fixed size and multi-dimensional typed and native arrays > + Greatly overhauled module loading and installation, including handling > precompilation at module installation time in Rakudo > + while/until loops can now return lists of values > + We now catch many more kinds of "Useless use of X in sink context" > + A number of convenient Unicode equivalents were introduced > + Superscripts can now be used for integer powers > + Non-digit unicode characters with a numeric value (½ and such) can now > be > used for that numeric value > + There is a new "approximately equal" operator > + Add support for USAGE argument help > + Provide tau constant (also: τ) > + Can now use channels with supply/react/whenever > + Bool is now a proper enum > + Supply/Supplier improvements > + Use of EVAL now requires a declaration of 'use MONKEY-SEE-NO-EVAL' > + Make pack and unpack experimental > + Dynamic variables are now visible inside start { ... } blocks > + Autoincrements on native ints are now faster than on Int > + The ~~ operator can now chain with other comparisons in many > circumstances > + Various numeric operations now return overflow/underflow failures > instead > of wrong value > + The :ss, :ii, and :mm options to s/// now all work together > > This is only a partial list of the changes in this release. For a more > detailed list, see “docs/ChangeLog”. > > The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for > making Rakudo Perl possible, as well as those people who worked on > the design docs, the Perl 6 test suite, MoarVM and the specification. > Additionally, the Pugs, Parrot, and Niecza projects were all instrumental > with their contributions to the specification and the community. > > The following people contributed to the development of the Christmas > release; > We’ve gone back through the logs of all the various projects. Thanks to > everyone who has worked to make this release happen over the past 15 years. > We > would also like to thank everyone who submitted bug reports or dropped in > on > the various forums to discuss things. Finally, we’d like to extend a > special > thanks to everyone who we accidentally left out of this list. > > Gisle Aas, abcxyzp, Chuck Adams, Colin Paul Adams, Rod Adams, > C.J. Adams-Collier, David H. Adler, Chirag Agrawal, > Amir E. Aharoni, Bilal Akhtar, Julian Albo, Alekssasho, > alexghacker, Paco Alguacil, Brandon S Allbery, Geir Amdal, > Markus Amsler, Paul C. Anagnostopoulos, Nikolay Ananiev, > anatolyv, andras, Saleem Ansari, Joji Antony, Tomoki Aonuma, > Syed Uzair Aqeel, arathorn, Arcterus, Kodi Arfer, > Daniel Arbelo Arrocha, ash, Ted Ashton, Arnaud Assad, atroxaper, > Ori Avtalion אורי אבטליון, Auzon, Greg Bacon, > Ivan Baidakou, Alex Balhatchet, Szabó, Balázs, Amir Livine Bar-On > עמיר ליבנה בר-און, Luca Barbato, Mattia Barbon, > Ann Barcomb, Christian Bartolomäus, Alex "Skud" Bayley, > bcmb, Jody Belka, Shachaf Ben-Kiki, Andrei Benea, benedikth, > Zev Benjamin, benmorrow, Kevan Benson, Martin Berends, Anton Berezin, > Arthur Bergman, Anders Nor Berle, bestian, Peter Bevan, Mark Biggar, > Carlin Bingham, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, J. 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Woolley, Jonathan Worthington, Kuang-Che Wu 吳光哲, > xenu, Liang-Qi Xie 謝良奇, Xtreak, Gaal Yahas גל יחס, > Thomas Yandell, Alvis Yardley, Thomas Yeh 葉志宏, Natan Yellin, > yiyihu, Matt Youell, Tony Young, Shen, Yu-Teh, Ilya Zakharevich, > Ruslan Zakirov, Ahmad M. Zawawi, Michael A. D. Zedeler, zengargoyle, > zeriod, Agent Zhang 章亦春, Jimmy Zhuo, Ziggy6, Rob Zinkov, > Zoffix Znet > > If you would like to contribute or find out more information, visit > <http://perl6.org>, <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the > <perl6-compi...@perl.org> mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode. > > The next release of Rakudo (#95), is tentatively scheduled for 16 January > 2016. A list of the other planned release dates is available in the > “docs/release_guide.pod” file. > > The development team appreciates feedback! If you’re using Rakudo, do > get back to us. Questions, comments, suggestions for improvements, cool > discoveries, incredible hacks, or any other feedback -- get in touch with > us through (the above-mentioned) mailing list or IRC channel. Enjoy! > > [^1]: See <http://moarvm.org/> > > [^2]: See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koliada> > > [^3]: See <https://github.com/perl6/roast/tree/6.c> > > [^4]: What’s the difference between the Rakudo compiler and the Rakudo > Star distribution? > > The Rakudo compiler is a compiler for the Perl 6 language. > Not much more. > > The Rakudo Star distribution is the Rakudo compiler plus a selection > of useful Perl 6 modules, a module installer, the most recent > incarnation of the “Using Perl 6” book, and other software that can > be used with the Rakudo compiler to enhance its utility. Rakudo Star > is meant for early adopters who wish to explore what’s possible with > Rakudo Perl 6 and provide feedback on what works, what doesn’t, and > what else they would like to see included in the distribution. > > > -- > Will "Coke" Coleda >
