On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Andrew Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's some perl 6, parrot, and rakudo news for you: > > As I mentioned earlier this month, Parrot 1.0 is apparently due out > March 17: <http://www.parrot.org/news/vision-for-1_0>. The February > release of Parrot alluded to this milestone with its "Final Countdown" > name: <http://www.parrot.org/news/2009/Parrot-0.9.1>. The > stabilization of parrot is great news for perl 6 fans. (wake up, > people!) > > Parrot 1.0 is expected to be the first stable release of the virtual > machine that you can use to build languages on top of. Of course, one > language being built on Parrot is Rakudo, an implementation of perl 6. > Rakudo development recently became a little more separated from Parrot > development, now having its own source repository. So, this month's > Rakudo release is the first one that's separated from a Parrot release > <http://perlbuzz.com/2009/02/perl-6-stretches-its-wings-makes-a-milestone-release.html>. > Each month's release of > Rakudo is getting tons better than the previous month. You can write > pretty complex programs in perl 6 using Rakudo these days. With Parrot > stabilized, I'm betting that Rakudo development will continue to get > closer to having a usable, stable language soon. Maybe even by > Christmas. They could use your help, though, so if you feel like > playing with perl 6, perhaps you can lend the Rakudo development team > a hand.
During the hackathon at #FP. Many were following this guide to build: http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-6/where-rakudo-lives.writeback Jonathan _______________________________________________ kc mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc
