Rakudo Star - A usable Perl 6 release
Rakudo Star - A usable Perl 6 release
By Patrick Michaud (Pm) from DFW.pm
Date: Wednesday, 4 August 2010 12:00
Duration: 50 minutes
Target audience: Any
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Tags: 6 parrot perl rakudo star
Rakudo Star -- A usable Perl 6 release
At long last, we now have a release of Perl 6 called "Rakudo Star". Rakudo Star is not intended to be a final Perl 6 product -- it's a waypoint to signal that Rakudo Perl 6 is reaching a level of implementation maturity where it's suitable for some applications and other Early Adopter sorts of uses.
Rakudo Star also intends to pioneer and evaluate some updated approaches to the process of language development and distribution itself. For example, development of the Rakudo Perl compiler is being decoupled from the creation and management of "ready-to-use" packages of Perl 6, such as Rakudo Star. This decoupling even extends to the notion that compilers and distributions can (and perhaps should) have separate release cycles and release managers. Other changes are also being pioneered through the
Rakudo Star release.
Come to this talk to learn a bit of the history of Rakudo Star, the structure of the Rakudo Perl 6 project, and how we intend to use Rakudo Star as a foundation for building ever-more-mature distributions of Perl 6.
Attended by: Moritz Lenz (moritz), Clinton Gormley (DrTech), Markus Pinkert (Bedivere), Salvador Fandiño (salva), Steffen Schwigon (renormalist), Smylers, Carl Mäsak (masak), Thomas Netousek, Ronald Blaschke (rblasch), Andrey Shitov (ash), Karl Rune Nilsen (krunen), Damian Conway (damian), Erik Johansen (uniejo), Michael Lang (langmic), Salve J. Nilsen (sjn), Aaron Crane (arc), David Faux, Zefram ., Nils Grunwald, Vincent Pit (vincent), menozero, Patrick Michaud (Pm), Alberto Simões (ambs), Martin Vorländer (mvorl), Jean Forget, lorenzo, Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ (daxim), Olivier Mengué (dolmen), Francesco Rivetti (oha), Stefan Seifert (Nine), Jonathan Worthington (jnthn), Herbert Breunung (lichtkind), Nelson Ferraz, Roman Baumer (rba), Ferruccio Zamuner (ferz), Adde Nilsson, Bálint Szilakszi (szbalint), Paul van Eldijk (pavel), Poul Sørensen (poul), Joel Bernstein (joel), Nuno Carvalho (smash), Alba Ferrer (alba), Fulvio Scapin (trantorvega), Alex Muntada (alexm), valerio crini, Peter Makholm (brother), Aristotle, Peter Stoehr, Abe Timmerman (abeltje), Michael Kröll (pepl), Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni (maddingue),
