NOTE TO DOWNVOTERS: This is not a joke. E.g., http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2015/10/06/the-night-larry-wall-... "the new butterfly logo for Perl 6 'is specifically designed, among other things, to appeal to 7-year-old girls. The Python community has done a much better job appealing to kids with fun stuff.'"
> is specifically designed, among other things, to appeal to 7-year-old girls
but this is
I appreciate that you don't mean ill, and in fact wrote your post in support. However i'd like to point out that this sentiment is a little bit uninformed; both about Perl 6 (as it really is a new language) and Perl 5 (as it still keeps putting innovations in production that other languages have yet to catch up on).
Some research and asking about either of these comes with a lot of opportunity to be surprised and delighted. :)
However, the language definition has been frozen, and Perl6 programs you write after today are supposed to keep working.
Basically, it's a promise by the developers to stop breaking stuff willy-nilly.
It isn't (yet). Stay tuned.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10786423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10787764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10788786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10789464
Please look and see if there's already a recent thread, everyone. Also, this wasn't the production-readiness announcement, this is an essay on the end of the long Advent, and hopes for the future.
That said: yeah, it's happening today.
