Re: Criteria for production-ready?

2011-04-16 Thread Moritz Lenz
On 04/16/2011 05:02 PM, gvim wrote:
 Does there currently exist a set of criteria by which Perl6, or an 
 implementation thereof, can be defined as production-ready?

No. production-ready is just as subjective as good or fast or
mature or beautiful or any other adjective you can think of, because
different production environments have different needs.

Which is why you usually don't gain much by such discussions. Instead we
tend to focus on making the language and the compilers better.

Cheers,
Moritz


Re: Criteria for production-ready?

2011-04-16 Thread Carl Mäsak
gvim ():
 Does there currently exist a set of criteria by which Perl6, or an
 implementation thereof, can be defined as production-ready?

Not just one set of criteria, but lots of sets of criteria.

Some of these sets have already gone from showing a no flag to
showing a yes flag in the past few years. Lots of other sets will
switch over in the next couple of years.

Our challenge as a Perl 6 community is to attract those people whose
criteria makes Perl 6 interesting enough, so that they can help making
Perl 6 useful for even more people, by using it, reporting bugs,
writing tutorials, blogging about it, etc. This process is *already*
self-maintaining and snowballing, but we can consciously help boost it
in various ways.

But this is why when you ask the production-ready question, you'll
not get a short, straight answer but a long one like this one. :)

// Carl