note moritz <blockquote>Is Perl 6 at least as much production ready as much as Perl 5 is?</blockquote> <p>For what use cases?</p> <p>You see, Perl 6 isn't meant as a successor for Perl 5 (at least not anymore; that was the original intention for Perl 6, but we've diverted from that path long ago), so it's not clear to me that Perl 6 has to excell in exactly the same spots as Perl 5. So I don't think we need to have a complete superset in productivity to declare it production ready.</p> <blockquote>That question captures what people mean when they ask for production readiness of Perl 6.</blockquote> <p>Citation needed. Maybe it captures your idea, but people I talk to all have different ideas of production readiness.</p> <blockquote>That question captures what people mean when they ask for production readiness of Perl 6.</blockquote> <p>I frankly admit that on most areas, existing Perl 6 compilers cannot compete with Perl 5 on most "production readiness" metrics. So, if that's the answer you want to hear, please have it and be happy.</p> <p>But there are a lot of folks who don't need the same level of stability and speed, and who are willing to give up a bit of both in exchange for a much more expressive and consistent language. And for those folks we need a more detailed answer than "yes" or "no". It's for those folks that we blog about our progress, fix bugs, add features and make monthly releases -- not for the anonymous crowd waiting for a release labeled 1.0</p> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-616540"> [http://perl6.org/|Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed] </div></div> 992603 992700