I used Perl 6 a while ago, I even taught it several times.
I even had Larry Wall (author of Perl) and Patrick Michaud (lead developer of Rakudo) sit in my classes.
For various reasons I have not touched it in the last 12 month.
All this changed in the past week...
I got home from YAPC::NA being very enthusiastic about Perl 6 again.
I heard Patrick Michaud talk about the 10-fold speed improvement of Rakudo in the last year and the fact they plan to provide backward compability or at least a strong deprecation policy for future releases of Rakudo.
That's awesome.
It might be time to start again with Perl 6.
If you'd like to try Perl 6, my recommended way is to install Rakudo, the most advanced compiler/interpreter of the language and go from there. For now I'll use a development version, not even a released version, though later we'll cover those too.
Here are the steps you need to take:
That's easy to say but a bit hard to do. Currently it is quite scattered around. Here are a few resources you might want to consider:
That's a lot and quite unorganized pile of stuff. Along writing articles on this site, I am planning to also pull in the documentation from all these places, where the license permits that, and try to create something that will be useful for you too.
Published on 2012-06-27
