note chromatic <blockquote><em>What's the migration path for people using perl 5.8.x +?</em></blockquote> <p>Perl 5.12.2 will be out soon, and Perl 5.14 comes out next spring.</p> <blockquote><em>... is Rakudo ready for work and to take on a heavy load in my job or is this largely still early beta and intellectual in nature?</em></blockquote> <p>That depends on the nature of your work.</p> <blockquote><em>Where is the documentation?</em></blockquote> <p><a href="http://perlcabal.org/syn/">Perl 6 Synopses</a> and the <a href="http://github.com/perl6/book">Using Perl 6 (book in progress)</a> are good places to start.</p> <blockquote><em>What do I get from this language that I don't get from perl 5 that would make me want to migrate?</em></blockquote> <p>Better consistency, better defaults, and built-in language features that are (if even possible in Perl 5) syntax extensions.</p> 852336 856989