Hi, On 08/28/2012 10:09 PM, Marc Chantreux wrote: > i'm writing an article on Perl6 and i would like some facts to reassure > early adopters. according to the test suite and the will of Perl6 > implentors, what proportion (in %) of Perl6 can be concidered as stable?
That's a hard question to answer, because I don't know how to quantify language features. Counting them is very difficult, because there are "small" and "large" features, and which feature is what really depends on your point of view. > what are the parts that are not ? any link ? I've tried to come up with some sort of stability rating for the specs, and this is as far as I got: https://gist.github.com/2346494 It's easy to identify some subsytems that are definitively not stable: IO, concurrency, Unicode support, object pipes. There are areas that are pretty stable (control flow, basic OO, variables, scoping). Then there are areas that don't seem to have moved a lot recently, but that have unresolved issues smoldering under the surface, and it's unclear how large the waves will be when those issues are resolved. Cheers, Moritz .oO( Never ask a 6er for completion estimates, for he will say both Yay and Nay )
